Pavla's paintings deal with landscapes, ecology and the integration of man into his environment. The search for harmony between man and nature is evident and adds a spiritual touch to the paintings. The cycle of human life, from infancy to old age, is intertwined with the images of nature and from this analogy between them is understood. The paintings combine a realistic drawing style with symbolism and abstraction. Pavla uses in her paintings pencils, acrylic paints and natural materials like earth or mud.
— Dr. Shahar Marnin-Distelfeld, Curator
Each Pavla's painting is a work of creation, from the invisible, mysterious world to our visible, physical matter. Imagination creates reality as we perceive it. By giving form and color to her vision, Pavla crossed the portal from the abstract or the big void from where all created forms come and return, bringing awareness to the three-dimensional, emotional, ephemeral material world. The colors, the archeological themes suggesting age and transformation of form and meaning, human beings at different times in their life paths blending with nature, a pure occasion for reflection, as in a mirror.
— Eunice Figueiredo, Author, Artist
My acquaintance with the artist Pavla Parik was created and deepened during several of her solo exhibitions, which I curated.
The exhibitions "The Living Still Life", "Figures Reflecting Reality", "The Past Before Us" and many others, present Pavla's deep connection with nature. Through her art, she conveys her ability to observe, examine, research, understand and imagine processes and influences between man and landscape, between the living and the still, and between the revealed and the hidden.
Pavla concentrates on observing the landscapes of the Land of Israel and its inhabitants, and unfolds her investigation of the past following archaeological findings, of the present while observing contemporary reality and building in her mind's eye how both together will influence the future.
In her complex and large-scale works, Pavla pays attention to the smallest details, to colors and their meaning, to shapes and their location, and to a composition that integrates the subject with its surroundings.
In her two works dedicated to the Masada site, the artist presents the viewer - on the one hand, a description of the mountain, almost a map that accurately describes its shape, size, and contents as seen from a bird's eye view, and on the other hand, she leaves room to give free rein to her imagination and freedom to her hopes for the existence of human freedom and its victory over evil.
— Ariella Shamir, Curator