ORNA GELBSTEIN ARTIST
About Orna
Orna is an Israeli artist based in Tel Aviv Israel. Orna is also a lawyer and works as a lawyer.
Orna loves painting and always painted since her childhood. Orna studied painting since 1996 for more than a decade in courses that were tought by the painters: Maya Cohen Levy, Doron Rabina and Yaakov Mishori. She also attended different courses at the Artist House in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv’s Museum workshops and at the Kibbutz Artists Workshops.
Her paintings are typically colorful, some of them abstract and some figurative.
Orna says:
“Painting for me is a journey, a journey from one point to another on the canvas, a journey of colors and materials and a spiritual inner journey.
I range from abstract to figurative. The use of different styles and techniques allows me to express through my art my inner world and the world outside. In the figurative painting I deal with observation and attempt to depict reality as I perceive and experience it. The subjects I deal with are interior spaces, plants, portraits, and figures, to whom I try to give a personal interpretation. In the abstract painting in vivid colors, I give expression to my inner feelings and combine repetitive images from nature, which I am connected to, as sea, corals, fish, leaves, branches and birds as well as Mandalas.
I can say that in my work as a lawyer, the logical aspect in my life is mainly expressed, while in painting, my emotional aspect is reflected.”