Building Websites is not for Sissies!
I’ve just spent many, many hours rebuilding my website. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, but never actually forced myself to make the many decisions involved, to learn new computer-things, and to go through the agonies of setting it all up. But basically it’s done, it seems to work and I’m […]
Architectural Sculpture
This small architectural sculpture depicts a Yemenite house with a Mikveh (Jewish ritual purification pool) on the roof. It’s an imaginative piece based on the architecture of Yemen, as well as the aesthetic of mud brick construction in general. Measuring about 12cm high, it is of fired clay, with a coloured glass inlay, and white […]
Beit El: Heaven and Earth
A new visual presentation at the visitor’s centre at Beit El in Samaria will be using my Jacob’s Ladder painting, among works by many other artists, including several very famous ones, I think. I’ll post pictures, and maybe video, of the actual thing when they have the opening (not sure when that’ll be)! Beit El […]
April Update
In April I made this small painting – a view from our balcony at night. It shows our dog Shula, the park behind our building, and the similar apartment buildings opposite ours. It’s a clear night with stars, and my geraniums and petunias are doing well…..(apologies but the blue looks a bit lurid on the […]
Work in progress: A nostalgic Edgware painting
This is a naive narrative painting, set in Green Lane in Edgware in about 1974. It shows two men in their best shul gear, greeting each other in the street. A woman is walking her dog nearby, and behind them, peering through the window of her front room, is my grandma Polly. The house appears […]
Late for Shul: A light-hearted painting of Shabbat in Raanana
“Late for Shul,” is the first painting in a new series of Jewish humorous art. With these paintings, I’ll be reflecting a wide range of Jewish life by painting people, places and situations which will be familiar to many in Israel and elsewhere. Working in a simple and colourful style, I want to convey a […]
Dejeuner des Canotiers
This photograph (above) was taken on our fantastic school trip to Sde Boker in the Negev desert this last Friday. The light and composition of the scene strongly recalled Renoir’s famous painting Dejeuner des Canotiers which I talked about in a recent post! Sde Boker is where David Ben Gurion, Israel’s very first prime minister, had his […]
Renoir balcony
One of my favourite books is Renoir, My Father by Jean Renoir (1958). It’s a most loving and beautifully detailed account of the great Impressionist painter. Highly recommended! And here is Renoir’s beautiful Le Déjeuner des Canotiers (1881). And amazingly, below it, is the same balcony today. For many years the building was standing derelict […]
Herbs and my Outdoor Studio
Our herb collection this hot and humid morning……..and my covered outdoor ceramics corner! I love working out here in the summer, sometimes late at night, and also later in the year when it rains, and I’m protected from the rain….but am still outside…..fantastic!
Pessach Sameach! (Happy Passover!)
This recently completed horse sculpture depicts an ancient Egyptian royal horse adorned with blue and hold ceremonial crest and tail. Ceramic, with blue underglaze and gold leaf. An art prize I won at school was a modest and beautiful bronze of a horse by Elizabeth Frink, which I was entitled to keep for a year. […]