The creative process is intuitive, from the gut. I choose the colors I want to use, at least in the initial stage. I start with inspiration from sources I collect around the world, mainly my own photographs or others that I love.

Mostly urban and industrial architecture, but also landscapes, desert vegetation, ocean depths, and more. In abstract painting, I don’t strictly adhere to the source – it starts there and flows into new places that include exploration of colors and shapes, different combinations between colors and forms. The next stage progresses to internal content, inner listening, emotional depth, feelings, pains, joys – everything enters and connects together into a wonderful and moving world. I always feel that the canvas is like a large carpet that I can continue painting on endlessly. My paintings are mostly large because there’s no limit to their continuity. For that matter, it’s like wallpaper for me that can go on and on. The process ends when I feel the painting is balanced, when each area has received its attention equally, and overall creates a single unit.

I want anyone who looks at the painting to feel a complete, colorful, and living world. In my view, abstract painting gives everyone space to reflect on their personal matters, and even though we don’t know each other, you can sit in front of the painting and delve into it for hours, communing with your inner self. This is the difference, I think, from figurative painting that draws you into someone else’s world – here you enter into yourself, finding quiet to think within the complexity. It’s kind of a paradox in itself.

Orly