I paint figuratively and expressively using mainly oil on canvas, combine imaginative work and observation. I usually combine several photographed images, patchworked into the painting to create compositions that include women, men, animals, and landscapes. The connections are loose and unraveled, resulting in a picturesque weave of a mythical nature.
I create transformative territories where intuitive links between human and animal, masculine and feminine, reality, and representation can exist. In the paintings emotional states I remember from childhood merge with dream fragments, partial imagery from the art world, the cinema, and my daily life.
My work is inspired by early 20th century German expressionist painting and also influenced by 80's neo-expressionism: a deep and vivacious colorfulness, intensive brushwork, materialistic and emotional density, intense closeness to nature, and awareness of Eros hidden within it. My color palette comprises bold, bright, clean, or fluorescent colors, alongside dark and murky colors. The language may vary, sometimes even within one painting: an elaborate and realistic depiction of an eye, garment, or wing, coexists with a more abstract pictorial language that disassembles the painting's subject matter into patches or lines.
In the past two years, I have started exceeding the boundaries of painting and creating more immersive works that seemingly absorb the spectator. The first work in this extended format was a comprehensive painting installation presented in a solo exhibition (The Wild Swans, Alfred gallery, Curator: Tali Tamir, 1-2/2020). The installation included paintings hanging on the gallery walls, and wall painting surrounding and connecting the canvases. In a dimmed space, at the heart of the installation, a performative video work was screened. The result seemed like a complex organism where the painted and the screened images intertwined and nurtured each other, like roots and branches of trees in a wood.