Vera Gutkina

Vera Gutkina was born in Moscow and immigrated to Israel in 1982. She settled  in Jerusalem where she lived until her untimely death in 2022. Gutkina  hails  from a family of scientists. Her father was a physicist, her mother an engineer, and her brother a mathematician. She was expected to follow in the family path and was sent to study Light engineering at the university, from which she holds an engineering Master degree. However, the pull of her desire to be an artist was uncompromising, and Gutkina went to study painting under the renowned artist Vladimir Shtranikh, a student of the great Russian painter Konstantin Korovin. The fusion between science and art is visible in her paintings that engage in different forms of experimentation with color and material. Space, time, and spirituality are the main topics she explores in her work.