Iris Gat

Iris Gat is a multidisciplinary artist.

Iris grew up in Kibbutz Kiryat Anavim within the Judea Mountains, Israel.

From a young age, she was drawn to painting and discovered her talent, an ability that became an anchor for observing the challenges of life:

“When I hold a paintbrush, or any other instrument that allows me to artistically express what is within, I enter the gates of a hidden garden, stepping on its blessing ground, and everything becomes serene, harmonic, and filled with happiness – just like water that reflects the blueness of the sky. My attention is devoted in its whole to the sounds of nature echoing between the rustling of the wind in leaves, to the pure singing of birds, and the sound of a bee’s flight touching wild flowers. I experience this wondrous creation as a part of me, and from this place, art is expressed in a welcomed flow, through me and beyond…”

Her art works are mostly connected to artistic educational initiatives, and participated in dozens' exhibitions in Israel.

In the past several years, Iris started to write, and then she funded her ability to express her thought, and feeling, also through writing.

Iris devotes her time for the connection between art and the written word, through the combination of writings, paintings, and illustrations.

Her book "Up and beyond through motion" is a book that expressed her unique ability, and talent, that accent the beauty of the Olympic athletes's motion, and their emotion expression in the competitions' moments, through black & white exact paintings, succinct writings, and intelligent connection to the bible quotes, that actually reflects the tied between the roots and the branches, of the human's tree.

Iris also found importance valuable in moral stories for children, so she collected and renewed folk tales inspired by the King Solomon's wisdom, and she plans to create more new series that will enrich kids's world wisely.

"This quote, of the Great poet Rabindranath Tagore, describes my feelings and thoughts about being artist:

“Building a man’s truthful universe, the living creation of truth and beauty, that is the role of art.”

In each and every day I'm blessing for the opportunities to create and express new stories through words and art." Iris Gat