Tag: Bible Art

Bible art / Bar Mitzvah gift ideas - Original Jewish art - Parshat Teruma - a painting showing the bringing of gifts for the MishkanWhy Bible Art?

I make my Bible art in a world where the mainstream art world is often so very distant from any considerations of beauty or spirituality. Making Biblical artwork began, for me, as a very personal artistic and spiritual exercise. It eventually developed into an educational project, and now, it seems, is slowly returning to its source as a more spiritual and artistic endeavour, trying to engender connections with underlying meanings in the Bible.

Use of Colour in my Biblical Paintings

Colour is key in my Bible art prints. I use a lot of bright colours but my mainstay is cerulean blue in various levels of saturation. These blues symbolise the sky, the sea and the Eternal. It is for me the most spiritual colour, and thus the most hopeful and the most joyous. Counterbalancing that, I often use orange and reddish hues. These symbolise the earth, the desert, the Sinai itself; the very place from where the Bible originates. Oranges and reds are the colours of fire, of power, of authority, and of the harsh realities of this earthly life. Our task in life is to bridge between the ethereal blues and the burning oranges, and for that we have all the colours in between!

The Spiritual Significance of Colour

Some theoreticians and artists have written on the deeper meaning of colour. Of particular note are: Vassily Kandinsky, Margarethe Hauschka, and Rudolf Steiner. (Personally I do find them interesting, but it’s really important not to take them too seriously!)

A New Year! Parashat Bereishit – Genesis

My naive art, oil painting of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (complete with stripey lawn) appears as the first illustration of the Torah in the Child’s Bible published by Ariella Books.

Part 4 of The Children’s Bible

I’ve just finished the illustrations for Part 4 of the Bible for Children; Bamidbar (lit. In the Desert, or The Book of Numbers). It is published in German, by Ariella Books, under the title “Erzahl es Deinen Kindern,” (Relate it to your children), and the text is adapted by Bruno Landthaler and Hanna Liss. This […]

Parshat Chayei Sara

This week’s parsha is Chayei Sara. In the picture, Eliezer, Avraham’s servant, already knows that Rivka meets the criterion of kindness to be chosen to marry Yaakov, but hasn’t told her yet. He has a cheeky and knowing look about him while Rivka happily waters the camels. Quality print on canvas of this painting: $60: […]

Part 2 of children’s Bible – Shemot – out soon

Here’s the finished artwork which I posted previously. It’s one of twelve illustrations for the new children’s Tanach, Part 2. “Erzahl es Deinen Kindern – Die Torah in Funf Banden – Schemot” is due out soon, hopefully in time for Rosh Hashana, published by Ariella Books, Berlin.

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 […]

PAY WHAT YOU WILL – print offer

Following the “Songs of the Bible” exhibition in Raanana, I have available one museum-quality print, on canvas, of my painting “Entering the Promised Land,” measuring 50 x 70cm. Stretched on a wooden frame and ready to hang. it is on offer on a Pay What You Will basis – first come first served! (I have […]

BOOK COVER

So after lots of work – it’s about to be published – 50 years since the last such book – a German-language Bible for Jewish children – Part 1 – Genesis. Many, many thanks to publisher Myriam Halberstam of Ariella Verlag, for choosing me to do the illustrations, and to writers/translators/adaptors Bruno Landthaler and Hanna […]

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 […]