The DaVId Schatzky Exhibition
“For me, painting is expressive, a release, an escape from the verbal, literary and intellectual. There are no rules, no formulas. I put a canvas on the easel, follow my impulse and a face emerges with an arrangement of colour, line and texture without me consciously pre-thinking or planning it. I’m always surprised to see the result.
My faces seem to reflect some aspect of my inner mood or state-of-being. I have noticed some sadness in them, a sense of isolation, some mischief, some brutishness.
Perhaps that is a consequence of my own personal history – growing up in a troubled family of German-Jewish refugees who lost close relatives in the maelstrom and had to struggle to find stability when they fled, first to England, then to Canada.
Also, having always been a close observer of other people – first as a young actor and director, then as a teacher, then a broadcaster and after that for over 20 years - a psychotherapist, it’s likely that what flows through my fingers is a reflection of all the people who over the years unmasked themselves to me.”
David Schatzky, 2021
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