Artist - Biblical and Jewish Religious Symbolism
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Wishing you a Shana Tova! Shana Tova and family update: We’ve had a fairly intensive summer, mainly focused on celebrating our son Ariel’s bar mitzvah. We had twenty guests from the UK who came specially – family and friends. It was a really amazing, wonderful and meaningful event – or series of events – but […]
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,” 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 […]
Key Points Jewish Biblical Art developed under unique historical and halachic constraints that limited figurative imagery. Nevertheless, visual interpretations of Biblical narratives appeared in illuminated manuscripts, synagogue decoration, and select historical contexts. Modern Jewish Biblical Art reflects renewed cultural openness and engages both ancient texts and contemporary artistic language. Specific influences on my own Biblical […]
This is a painting I made last Friday during a break in the wonderful torrential rain. It shows our Mediterranean balcony garden with rain reflections on the terrace. Unlike most of my work, I finished it in a couple of hours, and it’s a plein-air painting – painted in front of the “motif.” I haven’t […]
Within Daniel in the Lions’ Den is also an angel painting…..There was much debate about how to depict the angel. The final stages of this painting involved quite a lot of changes, and included adding the angel with his golden wings (gold leaf protected by shellac varnish)……now that feels better! Daniel needed his angel. This […]
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 […]
