In 1988, after I had finished my studies at the Be’er-Sheva Center for Visual Arts
I had two subjects on my mind: One was the endless sunflower fields I saw on my way from the Hatzerim army base going up north and the second was the very few lines newspapers had dedicated to the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) reflecting the little interest it aroused.
The pastoral sunflower fields standing in such contrast to the battlefields around the corner gave birth to an exhibition of paintings depicting both types of fields. It was called “Battlefields” and was shown in January 1991 at the Amalia Arbel gallery in Rishon-Lezion.
Opening night was scheduled for the 19th of January but due to the Gulf -War people stayed in their sealed rooms and visited the gallery only on the next day.
The timeliness of the exhibition led to extensive coverage by the media and later it was ordered by Zurich’s Jewish Community Center where it was shown in full.
Having dealt with the painful war issue, I wished I could shut myself behind blocked entrances of places and as a result my “blocked openings” series was created. This series was never exhibited in full.
After exhibiting in Zurich Switzerland and facing the logistics of conveying my artwork, I turned to small scale canvases and kept a low profile for my subjects.
This time I depicted the garden around my house in Even-Yehuda showing the confluence between temporary, seasonal flowers and flora and the eternal stones.
I exhibited this series I called “paintings” at my house which I turned into a gallery for a short while.
In 1995, I started painting with Liana Gross at her home studio while actively serving as a board member of the Netania’s artists’ society.
I served as a curator for both single and group exhibitions and 3 years later was appointed as the society’s chairwoman.
In 1998 I established “Studio 6” with Liana in Netania. The studio included working space for artists and a gallery space for exhibitions.
Many artists exhibited their artwork there together with the studio’s artists.
The series I called “Associations” contained paintings constructed of symbols and puzzle-like parts with which the observer could make up his\her own story.
It was shown at “Studio 6”. 5 Paintings taken from this exhibition participated in a Biennial in Dubrovnik, Croatia where artists from Mediterranean countries show their work.
In 2000 I began painting boundless surfaces expressing the meeting of body with space. Whether a geometrical solid, a human body or a natural element, each was immersed in an endless space. These paintings were done mostly in orange. No brushes were used. I created them with a technique that I have acquired over the years.
These paintings comprised the “Touching Infinity ” exhibition which showed at the “Danon” gallery in Tel-Aviv as well as in Netania’s “The Cliff Gallery”.
In 2002, I continued with the color orange and the same technique yet different colors, images and rhythms kept emerging thus changing the paintings from one to the next.
They were exhibited in Haifa, Jerusalem, Netania, Rishon-Lezion, Kibbutz “Mahanaim” and in other places under the name “ Rhythm in Color”.
In 2004, when my first grandson Udi was born, I began running wild with colors using a spatula. I painted places touched by humans yet uninhabited by them.
At first I went over old paintings but soon afterwards I started from scratch.
That is how exhibitions “Walking in the Fields” and “Places” were born.
This series has not been finished yet. It has been exhibited in Netania, Haifa and Kfar Yonna.
At the same time I continued working on “Rhythm in Color” only it now contained clearer images of flowers and an addition of footnote with a drawing in color. These new ones are called “Within the Margins”.
Summing it up, in retrospective, I’ve been creating one continues painting all along. It tells of a search, of a secret and of joining of contrasts.
It is the inner world trickling out emphasizing the transitions through which I have been walking my life’s path.
