Rachel Gordin was born and grew up on moshav Bitsaron in Israel . She launched her artistic career with a series of paintings, "Earth-Human Being". In her search for appropriate colors and pigments went into the fields to collect lumps of clay which she mixed with glue and pigments. These she applied to the canvas with bare hands, not even using a brush.

She then began to paint an "ecological" series in protest against man's damage to nature which is also a metaphor of the injury that man inflicts on man. Deforestation and logging that turn green vegetation into dead skeletons and scorched earth. Some of these paintings also feature border fences and many evoke a sense of separation, collapse, destruction and considerable melancholy.

Most of Gordin's works feature rich, warm colors although her palette is minimal. She mostly works in industrial paint.

Gordin participates regularly at artistic events on behalf of peace. These have included "Our answer is peace" at the Lebanese security fence and at the peace project at Giv'at Haviva.

Gordin is recently working on a series of paintings entitled "Rorschach" ("Inscapes"), evocative of the bleak mood that encompasses daily life. The work is composed of diptychs of identical paintings with one painting seemingly the "monoprint" of the other. These works feature rich colors and imaginative images and textures. Viewers can interpret these pictures freely, according to their own imagination.

Currently Gordin is committed to a series "Above the Horizon". This features a novel technique whereby industrial colors are poured on canvas or wrapping paper.

Her work has reached a new peak of activity, due in large part to the demand of frequent exhibitions in Israel and abroad.

Rachel Gordin

Born on moshav Bitsaron. A graduate of the Art Teachers Training College.

Studied at the Avni Institute of Art, Tel Aviv and at the Artists Studios, Ein Hod.

Deals with sculpture using various materials. Paints with mainly mixed materials.

She has taught art at the WIZO vocational high school, Rehovot. She also taught Ceramic Sculpture at the Rehovot Cultural Center on behalf of the Art Cathedra. Is a member of the Israeli Painters and Sculptors Association.