Artist’s Statement
My paintings have always been an attempt to convey and share the pleasure I get from everyday activities and the life that surrounds me.
After initially working with the figure exclusively in a fairly mono-tonal colour range I quickly moved into portraying a more surreal, lyrical and metamorphic world using plant and animal forms in diverse colours and shapes. This symbolic language of natural phenomena led me through a door that paved the way for all my later work.
I like to think of what I do at present as pictorial music for the senses – a reflection of the joyful exuberance of birds and a celebration of life itself.
Rafael Gurvich, October 2021