Artist's Statement

On Content
Painting
Women in Christ's Line (click for full version)
I seek to create work that transcends the specific, the directly representational. I want to make pieces that house eternal principles which speak to the universality of the human experience across time, and portray the everyday struggles and triumphs of the physical and the spiritual.

I create Jewish art—with a focus on Judaica, the themes from the Tanach, the Torah, the Psalms. I have painted Leah, Tamar, Rebecca, Rahab, Abraham, Jacob and others. I have painted Jerusalem, contemporary art pieces with themes of Zion, inheritance and the Jewish holidays Succoth, Shavous, Rosh Hoshanah, Yom Kippur, Pesach.

I create Christian art from the Bible stories. I have painted many women from the Bible such as Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, Lydia, Hannah, Martha. I enjoy painting the Christian themes found in the parables, miracles, the life of Paul and the Gospels.

I create Ethnic art –depicting people of diverse cultures- Pre-Columbian, Asian, African, southwestern and Native American cultures.

I greatly enjoy painting the scriptures and themes that are meaningful to my patrons. My contemporary Christian art allows me to work together with patrons in selecting the color palette, size and themes of each oil painting --thus the creation is custom art, made especially for you and your home or place of worship.
On Technique
In some of the paintings and drawings of the old masters, various strokes and lines can be seen behind the final paintings or drawings. These underlines, some partially erased, speak to the creation of the piece and those reworked areas, called “pentimentos,” which add interest and depth to the finished art. Our lives today are built on vast underlayers of experiences—lifestrokes, mistakes, lines drawn and redrawn. These deposits of life shine out of our faces, shape our relationships and provide meaning.

In a like manner with my art, I seek to bring layers of materials and levels of meaning to the canvas. Faces, figures and fields of color are rendered to suggest the complexity of human existence. Corrections, re-corrections, lines, pentimentos, glazes, scumbling, colors, and forms all build on a unified plane, but that which was laid down before still obliquely reveals itself --thus bringing more color, texture and density to the final artwork. Hopefully these rendering techniques echo and convey the complexity of life built on the stratum of individual choices and experiences.

Experience

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