This is a post about three paintings: A view of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, a Jaguar E-type sports car, and a Kung Fu lesson in the park. But first, a few ruminations about what’s been going on in Israel. The recent release of hostages has been very emotional for a great many in Israel. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
