Iris Romanov

Iris Romanov is a painter and psychotherapist with over 30 years of clinical practice. She has spent decades working with people at their most vulnerable and honest — a perspective that shapes every canvas she creates.




She has painted throughout her life, but committed to her art seriously over the past five years, following her move from Israel to Georgia. It was here, at the intersection of two cultures and two vocations, that her central image emerged: the donkey.




For Romanov, the donkey is neither an animal nor a symbol — it is a mirror. Patient, stubborn, resilient, and persistently underestimated, it reflects what she has observed in people for three decades: strength disguised as weakness. Her series "Donkey: Symbol, Myth, Human" explores this figure across the full emotional spectrum — from tender lyricism to dark expressionism.




She works in mixed media: oil, acrylic, pastel, oil crayon. She holds no formal art degree, and considers this a source of creative freedom rather than a limitation. Her gallery is located in Batumi, Georgia.

art school

Privet Art Gallery Batumi