I find gold leaf painting very beguiling. It’s because of the sheen and reflectivity, the layers and the textures that you can achieve. Sometimes it can take years to finish a painting like this. Each time I come back to it, I add another layer, until the encrusted agglomeration of cracked and riddled surfaces becomes […]
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 […]
Between Heaven and Earth I made this painting a couple of years ago, shortly after finishing the Daniel painting. Inspired by the angel from that project, I wanted to experiment a bit more with angels, which is a difficult subject. The story of Jacob’s Ladder is about the bridge between heaven and earth so in […]
This is another in my series of gold-leaf, decorative paintings on the Tree of Life theme inspired by Gustav Klimt. Pattern and decoration were key elements in the art nouveau canon of Klimt’s time, as well as in the Arts and Crafts Movement that preceded it. More recently the Pattern and Decoration Movement in the […]
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 […]
Wishing you a Shana Tova! Shana Tova and family update: We’ve had a fairly intensive summer, mainly focused on celebrating our son Ariel’s bar mitzvah. We had twenty guests from the UK who came specially – family and friends. It was a really amazing, wonderful and meaningful event – or series of events – but […]
This is a naive narrative painting, set in Green Lane in Edgware in about 1974. It shows two men in their best shul gear, greeting each other in the street. A woman is walking her dog nearby, and behind them, peering through the window of her front room, is my grandma Polly. The house appears […]
“Late for Shul,” is the first painting in a new series of Jewish humorous art. With these paintings, I’ll be reflecting a wide range of Jewish life by painting people, places and situations which will be familiar to many in Israel and elsewhere. Working in a simple and colourful style, I want to convey a […]
Artists have for centuries painted their visions of the Bible. Adorning churches and manuscripts across the world, Biblical artists have created powerful visual embodiments of the Scriptures, and in so doing have represented the collective consciousness of mankind. Biblical art has mostly been the preserve of Christendom, while Jewish lore forbade figurative art. Judaic religious […]
