Artworks by Miri Baruch

I am a contemporary artist working in abstract, figurative, and figurative styles combined with abstraction. Alongside these, I also create semi-abstract works, primarily landscapes and flowers.

For me, abstract painting is a process of exploration, movement, and discovery. Over the years, I have developed personal working techniques based on the use of a variety of tools, including brushes, sponges, rollers, silicone spatulas, and palette knives. Each tool allows me to create different and unique textures, shapes, layers, and marks that cannot be achieved in the same way with a brush alone.

I work intuitively, without planning the final outcome in advance. The creative process is dynamic, and the painting changes and evolves throughout the process.

In my figurative paintings, I focus primarily on figures, without depicting a specific background, place, or defined environment. Instead, I create an abstract space behind the figures, allowing them to stand out while simultaneously becoming integrated with their surroundings.

Alongside my completely abstract paintings, I create semi-abstract works, mainly landscapes and flowers. In these works as well, I avoid preliminary drawing and allow the painting to develop intuitively. The image begins to emerge from color, form, and gesture, gradually taking shape until it acquires the character and presence I am seeking.

For me, the creative process is an ongoing dialogue between intuition and control, between color, form, material, and movement. I allow the painting to guide me, while at every stage I make decisions that direct its development and shape its visual language.