Gavin Rain (Cape Town, 1971) is a contemporary painter of portraits. He is known for his use of the pointillist technique. Rain’s paintings consist of small concentric dots. Each dot usually incorporates five colors of acrylic. Up close, these are small concentric dots, but seen from a distance, the colors become one and the image dissolves. Gavin sees his neo-pointillic art style as a metaphor for life in which he wants to encourage the viewer to create some distance even in everyday life. Rain developed his own art style from an interest in Georges-Pierre Seurat, founder of 19th-century neo-impressionism, or pointillism, and 20th-century Russian avant-garde painters.