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 […]
7 October: Sketching the Unsketchable
7 October in Israel was a nightmare made real. And the nightmare continues, on both sides of the fence. I can’t let this period pass without some kind of reference to it here. So: A few thoughts about the unthinkable and sketches about the unsketchable. Thoughts Enough is being written about the politics and machinations […]
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 […]
Aston Martin DB4 Zagato
An Aston Martin Artwork This original car painting depicts one of the Aston Martin DB4 Zagato, Sanction III cars. This one was built in 1999, registration no. 001 V (see history section below). The artwork is acrylic on birch wood panel, and measures 40x80cm. For further details please get in touch with me. These photos […]
Porsche Art: The Classic 356C
Recently I had the pleasure of creating a painting for this fine car’s owner in Geneva. The curved shape of the Porsche is a work of art in itself. Below is a quick photo-journal showing the art process. But first; a little history. The Porsche 356 is considered a landmark in car design. It was […]
Car Paintings: Fiat 500L
This is the first of a series of larger car paintings on wood. Measuring 50 x 70cm, it’s an acrylic painting on 10mm plywood panel. The lovely Fiat 500 was designed by Dante Giacosa in around 1955, and replaced the earlier tiny Fiat “Topolino” (nicknamed in Italian after Mickey Mouse). Fiat produced the 500 from […]
Red Sea Coral
Red Sea coral is under threat from various sources, and this painting was made after spending a few days near Eilat this summer. (We stayed in Kibbutz Elifaz, which is in the Arava, in the desert near the spectacular Timna.) South of there, at the Red Sea, the beautiful coral reefs can be found at […]
A Classic Car Portrait
A dark green MGB roadster from 1967 is the subject of my new classic car portrait on wood. The original car is in the collection of a gentleman from Alberta, Canada. His wife (well, technically, ex-wife) wanted to give him a personalised gift celebrating the car that he’d inherited from his father. This was also […]
A Jerusalem Imagined
A Colourful Landscape of the Jerusalem Hills This new painting depicting the Jerusalem hills emerged quite quickly and spontaneously. I think the energy comes across in the brushwork. I really enjoyed doing this painting because of just that flowing feeling. It’s far less technical than a lot of my work recently, and that’s definitely liberating. […]
Elijah Ascending to Heaven – a commissioned painting
2 Kings 2: As they were going along and talking, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire which separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind to heaven. Elisha saw it and cried out, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen! יא וַיְהִי, […]