My painting is intuitive, based on introspection of my emotional inner space and on dialogue with my surroundings. My work comes from a constant need to create a colorful and positive sphere, an almost womb-like world, a micro-cosmos of a personal experience projected outside
Color is my first motivation to paint, the catalyst for refining emotions and feelings. My experiences as an artist are reflected foremost in color.
Many of my paintings move on the border between figurative and abstract, as exemplified in the series Life Forms, in the paintings of Under the Microscope, and in the series Nature and Particles.
The images in my paintings invite the spectator to enter the work, as well as to go behind the scenes of the artistic process and discover the personal experience that motivated the work: to find, observe and create his or her own personal coding for understanding the painting.
For me, the working process is almost always an ongoing journey of discovery and development. In my work I use various techniques that I have gradually developed; for example, using acrylic paint in a manner which simulate the qualities of watercolors but which have totally different color intensities, tapping the brush or working on the canvas horizontally to prevent the running of paint.
Many artists have been my source of inspiration, and I am indebted to so many of my teachers, peers and colleagues. Among the painters that I love most are Mark Rothko, whose use of color and materials for creating fantastic worlds that enable the spectator a possibility of traveling at one's own will are among the most charming I have ever seen; Morris Louis, upon his large scaled ravishing paintings in which intense colors are absorbed and drip partly controlled, on the canvas; Matisse for his majestic color scheme, the flattening of images and the "sounds" that one can hear in his works; and Lea Nickel, an Israeli artist, for her uniquely sweeping color compositions.