self portrait a Painting

Born in Jerusalem 1952. Grew up and educated in London and Tel-Aviv.
Started painting at age 12. Exhibited since 13, accepted to Art College at 15 but decided against it.
Tel-Aviv University Honors BFA in Theater acting and directing.
Since 1977 writes plays for stage and screen, paints, directs, acts, produces shows in his Traveling Theater. Acts in Israeli, British and American movies, designs sceneries and exhibits shows of his paintings. Lives and works in Old Jaffa since 1978.
12 one-man exhibitions of his paintings (73, 81, 84, 86, 94, 02, 06, 06, 06, '08, '09, '09).


Main influences- Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, Bacon, Miro, Hockney, Nolde, Munk, Ensor, Bruegel, Michelangelo, Kandinsky, De Kooning, Turner, Mattisse, Bonnard, Daumier, Soutine, Nahum Guttman, Fima and the Expressionists.

Artist Statement
In my painting I try to capture fleeting moments of intense dramatic, comic, grotesque, lyrical and melancholy interactions between people, which combines my experience as a theater and cinema writer-director-actor as well as a painter. I also paint the milieu around me and places I travel to... experimenting, playing between realism to abstract...
Above all, I simply paint to have fun, to celebrate the decades I received on earth in the most colorful, joyful, sensual and intense way possible. Joie-de-vivre is my motto.