Artist Profile

About Artist

Well-defined strokes, strong colours and soft highlights are the main characteristics of Avi Roy's works. His human subjects sport sombre, oval faces with expressive, yet inscrutable eyes. His use of colour and shading is almost surreal, but remains in harmony with the picture. Patterns, symmetrical and neat, as well as insect and animal motifs appear alongside his figures, perhaps anchoring them to our world. “Portraits of any person can express what he or she is as well as what he or she is not. This notion of trying to figure out people through portraits is what I wa ...