Naïve art: A painting of Edgware life
This piece of naïve art, set in Edgware in about 1975, was originally described in an earlier post here. This painting was for me an exercise in nostalgia, recreating a place so familiar to me during my childhood. Apart from the Shabbat atmosphere, with its family meals and my Grandma’s special cooking, one of the […]
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 […]
On the theme of Daniel: Experimenting with different colours and forms
This is a contemporary Biblical painting on the theme of Daniel in the Lions’ Den. It is acrylic on canvas, with applied gold leaf, and measures 80cm x 80cm. The angels are depicted as ethereal globules of colour, but I’m not too happy with this treatment. Considering making some changes – I’ll post an update […]
New Black Moses
I’ve just completed a new ancient Biblical sculpture. My New Black Moses stands 31.5cm high and is made of black fired clay with touches of a dark metallic underglaze. The inspiration for this type of formal, standing figure comes from the ancient sculpture of Mesopotamia. The (linked) article from the Metropolitan Museum’s website describes this […]
Finding new life in an old painting – a Biblical scene.
The subject is an undefined Biblical scene, in the Land of Israel. Since it is made up of different layers which have accumulated over a few years of painting and re-painting, the canvas itself has started to take on something of an archaeological character. It’s an unresolved picture. I’m aiming to bring it alive now […]
A Sea Song
Magical Art of the Red Sea And now: A boy, who is a prince and a minstrel too, plays the flute by the shores of a desert sea – the Red Sea. Behind him, we see his boat floating above colourful fish in a turquoise-blue sea. A dolphin swims gently by, while in […]
A new painting: Shepherdess, Desert, Sheep and Moon.
I’m very happy to have been accepted recently as a member of the British Association of Naive Artists, and this painting shall be appearing in their exhibition this summer in Chichester and St. Ives.
Last picture for Children’s Torah
This is a slice from the last picture I did for the Children’s Torah – Parshat Nitzavim. It’s not the last chronologically, but I didn’t do them in strict number order.
A Salute to Michael Falk
The art of Michael Falk, who lives not far from me, in Sde Warburg. (This is a farming community, originally founded by German refugees, and now a prosperous and well-established moshav). Michael came to Israel in the 1940s as a refugee from Germany (via Ireland). His work has been a source of inspiration for me […]
Bus Bomb in Jerusalem
I thought this picture was relevant to what’s been going on. It’s the only war-related picture I’ve done. We are holding our breath, so to speak, for what may be to come in this latest bout. Hopeful that it will calm down asap. Meantime – still painting as and when I have time – and […]