• Okun is at the same time a poet and a visual alchemist, an artist whose strange admixtures are as much experiment as they are song. Mock heroic and humdrum, enthusiastic and laconic, superficial and supernatural, Okun's pictorial combinations have an immediate effect on the viewer, a grasping of one's interest ...Besides possessing a flair for invention, syncopation of iconography and a secretive sense of Jewish historical perspective, Okun draws beautifully in a light classical manner and paints with a flair for the spirited brush gesture and veiled hue. His art belongs to no contemporary stream no convention and groups do not gather round his peculiar style.
  Gil Goldfine, "Jerusalem Post"
  
• what Okun succeeds to produced out of such simple material as a pencil deserves to be labelled a work of virtuoso...
  Miriam Yizraeli, "Kol Hair"
  
• Here is a painter of great artistic value. This time he shows us an unknown aspect of his work: the pencil drawings. They show the rare pictorial qualities, carry an air of monumental strength in spite of the restriting characteristics of this "commom" medium. The very best of Okun's works are real diamonds. They display a combination of creative invention and realism, metaphor and straightforwardness with a sophisticated mythical irony. All this is expressed in an independent and well-formed style which is wise and mature enough to be able to combine in the right proportion, the best of Western classical tradition with delicate hints of Jewish culture...
  Nitza Malinyak, "Ha'aretz"
  

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