Rachel Michael

Rachel Michael

I am an Israeli painter born in 1953.  For many years family and career

as a psychotherapist have been  central to my core being. However,

art in its various modalities has also been my passion since early

childhood and I am now actively enjoying it through my paintings.

As a painter I am an autodidact and as such I see my artistic

development on a continuum of experiential observation, ongoing

studying with Israeli and International artists, self work and different

workshops to enrich my technique and unique language.

For the last few years I have been studying with Antonio Matorosa, a

known Brazilian/Italian artist residing in northern Israel.

I immensely enjoy abstracts but, nature painting with the uniqueness

of the Israeli lights and climate is also my favorite.

Painting, like music, requires balance and harmony.  It also requires

a personal and an emotional statement. That is my goal: to experience

and to be able to transfer it on the canvas.

Painting is my playground area. Oil colors, brushes, palette knives and

canvasare my tools for a total process of beginning without a clear prior

knowledge of where it will take me.  As the painting reveals itself from

within  it is all me and mine.