Israeli nature & landscape

For many years I was unable to paint a landscape because I did not connect with the environment in which I lived, I did not feel any emotion arising in me in front of the view of the desert or the sea, and even less in front of the dusty neighborhoods of Beersheba… I loved the Sea of ​​Galilee but I did not find inspiration in it… Then, about 10 years ago I discovered Samaria! Which I fell in love with at first sight! From the Rann of Genesis, the rocks, the thorns, the olive trees and the vines on the hillsides, the Jewish settlers, imbued with daydreams about the restoration of the biblical Land of Israel and the redemption, the women with the colorful turbans, and the children…!. Children growing up in nature, in freedom! And above all, the Sertaba, a mountain that rises between the valley and the mountaintop, which literally has no place where you can't see it... a desolate and isolated place, where the Hasmonean kings established one of the most fortified palaces of their kingdom, where some still say that treasures are buried in the depths of the earth... In short, I realized that this was "my" landscape! (Although I had no prior political-ideological affinity with it,

The ancient stones whisper and we give them a voice. In ancient Samaria, the farm and the past meet, an experience unlike any other.