about ravit

The main subject matter of my painting is landscapes, specifically riverscapes. To me, the river represents the erosion of my time on earth with the obstacles that inhibit the flow (breathe) of life.

Oil on canvas provides a dynamic combination of a wide character-range of color and unlimited degrees between opacity and darkness and transparency and clarity. Ironically, many times layering colors exposes/reveals more than it covers up.

My search is the search for light in the darkness and air in the colors.
For years I painted the Jordan River, from the point where it left Syria, until it spilled into the Sea of Galilee in Israel, transparent layers of cultured oil paint that were clogged with layers of industrial oil paint.
Then again it scratches the point and reveals the bottom of the river, as if waiting for an answer, why the river can flow with breathtaking beauty from Syria to Israel and we fail to connect the peoples on land.
When I arrived in the Netherlands, the river was transformed, it was the first moment I was able to see the river simply as part of the board scale of nature without political thoughts. It was a founding moment that I will cherish forever.
I left the river in Amsterdam, I could no longer continue to paint it when I returned to my homeland, but he refuses to leave me, as if to say" you have not yet solved the equation, you have not yet received an answer."

I have been trying for many months to create a series of drawings depicting the interior of the river through portraits and anatomy.
Working with a line rather than layers of paint, allows me to pinpoint the storm and the stillness, the war and the peace, the depth and the shallowness the scream that seeks peace in the soul.
And I already know, in order to reach this stillness, the rippling of the water in front of the rays of the sun, I have to connect to the river: I have to bring the river in me.