Donatas
is a Lithuanian painter-monumentalist from Vilnius, primarily working in the international film industry as an art director for the company "Cineeffects Studio" (CineFX), as well as an independent film production designer. After a professional hiatus, he returned to painting in 2020, began participating in exhibitions, and took part in international art fairs.
Painter
In 1997, after obtaining a Master's degree in Monumental Art from the Vilnius Academy of Arts, he became involved in the cultural scene as a painter and a film director-cinematographer. Between 1997 and 2003, he created a stained-glass portrait of Petras Vileišis, ten large-scale mural paintings on residential buildings in Poland (in Gdańsk, Warsaw, Łódź, Katowice, etc.), participated in a group exhibition "Freska" at Vilnius Town Hall, and presented a solo painting exhibition at the "Arka" gallery.
Cinematography
Some of the notable projects Donatas has contributed to include HBO's Chernobyl, Netflix's Stranger Things, Jean-François Delassus' The Fall of the Wall, and History documentaries Barbarians and Medieval Spain. For his design of the sets in HBO's miniseries Chernobyl (2018-2019), he received a commendation from the Television Academy's "Primetime Emmy Awards."