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Nocturne
A field of deep blue gathered at dusk — pigment layered and scraped back until the surface holds the memory of light leaving the land.
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Tidings
A sky-blue expanse threaded with fine marks, like a held breath of weather — the lightest of Orly’s recent fields.
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Salt Light
Dense white accumulations scattered with graphite and earth — the bleached, salt-bright glare of midday on dry ground.
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Red Earth
Ochre and iron drawn from the Namibian veld, broken by flecks of sky. The ground itself becomes the subject.
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Veld
Cream and gold built up over many sittings, carrying the dry light and wide silence of open country.
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Quiet Field
Pale, near-white drifts of mark and pause — a surface that asks to be approached slowly, rewarding the patient eye.
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About
Orly Rabinowitz spent her early years on a farm in Namibia. The arid desert landscape, wide open spaces, silence and isolation nurtured imaginative thought and contemplation.
After teaching for many years in England and South Africa, and having founded her own art school for children and adults, her focus shifted to painting. The light, colours, textures and rhythms of the Southern African landscape and the forces of nature infiltrate her work. Merging the conscious with the unconscious, she continuously explores unknown territory — finding connections between things seen and unseen, between the personal and the communal.
Rabinowitz graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art with a BA (Fine Art) and HDE at the University of Cape Town in 1979.
“For me painting is a physical, emotional and cerebral experience, inspired by nature, the human condition and the materiality of paint itself. I work from memory, slowly building up a surface with colour, line, brushstroke and texture. I strive to employ a balance between spontaneity and restraint.”
Atmosphere, light and reflection juxtapose the technical conflicts that arise during the process of painting. From these tensions, the artist finds that quiet place where intuition has replaced intention.
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