Liga Purmale

Liga Purmale (born 1948) is a Latvian painter. At a young age she moved to Riga from the Latvian countryside to study painting, first at the Janis Rozenthals Art High School and then at the Latvian Academy of Art. In the 1970s she and Miervaldis Polis, who was her husband at the time, started a new trend of Photorealism in Latvian painting. She currently lives and works in Riga.