The “flesh” of a painting lies in the materials from which it is made. This current series of small works, created on old panels and used paint tubes, was born from an attraction to the physicality of painting and to the hidden beauty found in studio remnants. These mixed-media works lie at the intersection of painting, collage, and relief, exploring color, texture, and the tension between traditional and unconventional materials.
Given the turbulent and often violent reality of our time, many of my works address modern and contemporary history. Working on the sea reliefs has become a kind of refuge from the dramatic, and at times tragic, themes that appear in my paintings and in the news.
The subject of this project has become meaningful to me since settling near the sea in Jaffa. These seascapes are not only drawn from the visual environment in which I live, they also serve as a link in the rich painterly tradition that strives toward the sublime. From artists like Turner to Kiefer, creators have sought to merge representations of the visible world with intuitions of a hidden one.
The sea is a theme that reaches in two directions- outward, toward expansive space, and inward, toward the human spirit.