I've been drawing and painting for as long as I can remember. It was never really a choice. Born in Israel in 1977, I committed to painting fully in my early 40s, going back to art school to build the technical foundation that the work demanded. I wanted to understand light the way the Old Masters understood it. I wanted to earn it.

The most significant chapter of my training was studying with David Nipo, a remarkable painter. Through him I learned classical realism the way it should be learned: slowly, rigorously, and with deep respect for the tradition. But more than technique, what David taught me was how to observe. To really look. Everything else, anatomy, composition, the handling of oil paint, turned out to be secondary to that.

My days are spent in the studio, working slowly. I paint from life when I can, from photographs when I must, always chasing the moment where the paint stops feeling like paint and starts feeling like skin, or light, or the particular quiet of a child lost in thought. That moment is what keeps me coming back.

I paint people, places and objects that move me, touch my soul. Since October 2023, I've found myself drawn to paint the war. Not the violence of it, but the human texture of it. Soldiers I know personally. Landscapes I recognize. The strange, terrible beauty of a golden sky over destruction. I don't think of this as a departure from my figurative and still life work. It's the same question, asked more urgently: what does it mean to look carefully at the world right now? Every painting I create carries a personal piece of me.

I paint from my studio in Herzliya, Israel. My work is available as original oil paintings and some of it as fine art giclée prints.