I started drawing and painting before entering primary school. Geometric structures were my favorite focus. By the age of 12 years old I started oil painting and sculpting. My favorite topics became portraits, desert landscape and buildings for painting, and busts for sculpting.

My artwork stopped when I entered the university and focused on my medicine first, then molecular and cellular biology studies, then research in cancer and aging. My next 20 years in the pharma and the biotech industry are still very fulfilling but kept me away from art.

In 2021, COVID lockdown gave me the time and reminded me how joyful and fulfilling painting was. Painting made the last year of the pandemic a blessing. I switched from oil to acrylic, and abstract was instinctively my preferred style. Since then, my Saturdays, painting days, became a celebration of creativity and a time for expressing my fascination for biology and nature colors and designs.

Science and art are the two sides of the same coin: curiosity. It is the search for truth in science and for beauty in art.