Maija Dragūne

Maija Dragūne (19 March 1945) is a Latvian graphic artist. She works in graphic art and book illustration, as well as paints watercolours. Maija Dragūne made a great contribution to the illustration of Latvian books, working on the editions of notable authors: Ojārs Vācietis, Jānis Baltvilks, Vitauts Ļūdēns.

Biography Dragūne was born on 19 March 1945 in Riga, in the family of cartoonist Voldemārs Dragūns. and a member of Chamber of Graphic Art since 1994.

Art Dragune's black and white lithographs are characterized by strong contrasts, painterly tonal transitions, the multi-layered nature of the artistic image, and poetics permeated with sharp irony. The portraits reveal the continuity and changeability of the development of a person's inner world. The artist realizes book illustrations in the technique of lithography, watercolour, gouache, ink and crayon drawing, harmonizing all the elements of book construction in a single artistic ensemble.