Gavin Smith Racing Stable | E1 Draaifontein D70 Rd, THE APEX 12, Port Elizabeth (Port Elizabeth) 6001, Eastern Cape

Gavin Rain 1971 lives and works in Cape Town He has painted since childhood and started with pointillism in 2003 Influences include Seurat the Russian Avant garde art of the 1900s and many architects He originally intended to study architecture in the hope of combining his two interests art and mathematics but ended up obtaining a degree in Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town before studying art the Ruth Prowse School of Art In 2011 Rain participated in the 54th Venice Biennale at the Republic of Costa Rica pavilion with a portrait of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and again in 2013 at the Republic of Bangladesh pavilion with a work entitled Lena Rains objective is to allow the viewer to perceive the convergence of two opposing pictorial styles the abstractness of the colourful concentric circles that thicken into dense dots in relief and the figurative aspect of the image that is defined by the sum of these same dots as the viewer takes a few steps back It is in this backing off that t