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 […]
A Bespoke Car Portrait
A bespoke car portrait is not just about what the car looks like: lines, colour, texture and so on. It’s also about the life of which the car has been a part. The human journeys it’s been a part of, and the places it’s been…..All this can be reflected in the aged finish of its […]
Gold leaf painting
I find gold leaf painting very beguiling. It’s because of the sheen and reflectivity, the layers and the textures that you can achieve. Sometimes it can take years to finish a painting like this. Each time I come back to it, I add another layer, until the encrusted agglomeration of cracked and riddled surfaces becomes […]
Upward over the Mountain
Special Trail-Running Art. Tommy Rivers Puzey, amazing person and ultra-runner, is in intensive care with lung cancer. This painting, which I’ve made specially, has now been sold at auction here to help raise money for his ongoing medical care and for his family. I’ve called it Upward over the Mountain to recall a song by […]
Jacob’s Ladder
Between Heaven and Earth I made this painting a couple of years ago, shortly after finishing the Daniel painting. Inspired by the angel from that project, I wanted to experiment a bit more with angels, which is a difficult subject. The story of Jacob’s Ladder is about the bridge between heaven and earth so in […]
Pattern and Decoration: Tree of Life (Dark Red)
This is another in my series of gold-leaf, decorative paintings on the Tree of Life theme inspired by Gustav Klimt. Pattern and decoration were key elements in the art nouveau canon of Klimt’s time, as well as in the Arts and Crafts Movement that preceded it. More recently the Pattern and Decoration Movement in the […]
The Fiat 130 Coupe
Automotive Art! This automotive art piece depicts the elegant and powerful Fiat 130 Coupe. Designed by Paolo Martin for Pininfarina, it was a large grand-touring car produced from 1971 to 1977. One of these rare and very expensive cars became our family car in about 1974. It was a most amazing and unusual car bought […]
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 […]
Historical painting: One family’s story, in a specially commissioned art piece
A commission for a historical painting Turka is a small town in Ukraine and became the subject of a specially commissioned historical painting. In 1914 at the beginning of World War I, it was in Polish territory, and occupied by Russian forces. The Stieglitz family was a well-to-do Jewish family with a large house in […]