Boris Tatievsky

Boris Tatievsky is an Israeli artist whose life has been shaped by persistence, inner vision, and an unwavering devotion to art. Although circumstances led him to work for many years outside his professional field, painting has always remained both his calling and his refuge.

Born in 1956 in the USSR, Boris graduated from an art college as a teacher of drawing and drafting. Even in his early years, he perceived the world differently — not merely as landscape or structure, but as mood, silence, tension, and light. What began as childhood drawings gradually evolved into a more conscious and deeply personal artistic language.

He shared his knowledge generously, teaching children and later adults, passing on not only technique but also sensitivity to color, form, and space. He participated in regional exhibitions, quietly building his artistic presence.

After immigrating to Israel, Boris initially worked in an art studio and continued exhibiting his works in Tel Aviv–Yafo, Petah Tikva, Rishon LeZion, Netanya, and Ra’anana. Life, however, required him to step away from his profession. Yet art never left him.

In his free time, he returned to the canvas — not out of obligation, but out of necessity.

Nature, memory, and the Israeli landscape became recurring sources of inspiration. Working with oil, watercolor, and acrylic, Boris experiments with texture, transparency, and structure. His imagination moves freely between realism and abstraction.

In recent years, he has explored a distinctive approach he calls the “Broken Glass” technique. In these works, the world appears fragmented — not shattered, but refracted. Figures dissolve into planes of color and geometric forms. Light breaks into facets. Emotion is conveyed not directly, but through layered tones and abstract rhythm. These mixed-media works on paper invite the viewer to pause, to look closer, to assemble meaning from fragments.

Alongside these experimental compositions, Boris has created a series of marine paintings in oil on canvas — quiet yet powerful studies of water, horizon, and distance. In them, the sea often becomes a metaphor: for movement, for longing, for the unknown.

There is a quiet intensity in Boris Tatievsky’s work — a sense that beneath calm surfaces lies a deeper current. His creative energy continues to evolve, giving rise to new paintings that resonate differently with each viewer, revealing more the longer one stands before them.