Nik Rafin’s educational background presents itself in great detail here, with a sunset-themed piece rendered with precision and contrast. The concentric circles evoke the image of lens flares — common when an imaging device is pointed towards the sun, while the hints of blue and white offers coolness in the midst of the intense yellows, reds and oranges.
With a diverse education in photography, fine art and advertising in the USA, Nik Rafin’s entry into the arts started as becoming an illustrator and editorial cartoonist for Marquette Tribune News Paper, Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1997. Since then, he has had experience as a graphic artist, illustrator and photographer. In the 2000s, Nik Rafin had solo exhibitions back in Malaysia.