Rachlis is well known for his large-scale paintings. He paints the human form, faces, animals, and landscapes. His painting style is a beautiful fusion of figurative work and gestural abstraction, with his graffiti like energetic markings, large brushstrokes, and paint splattering.

His paintings make tangible the organization of chaos, they are at once both loose and tight. His use of colour, brush work and marks are completely convincing. When you view a Mike Rachlis painting you are viewing the freedom and unbridled expression, of a young maestro.