Ginette Ashkenazy

I believe that art is something which happens over time. Not the time it takes to create a painting, or the time it takes to conceive of and construct a sculpture, but the time it takes for the images, the impressions, the emotions, the fears the joys the pain - the list is long - to encode themselves in the subconscious, and then, later, in my case a lot later, to emerge as pieces of art. Sometimes more successful than others. Sometimes more satisfying than others, Sometimes joyful and sometimes not.
Louise Cohen's text tells, in more details, the circumstances which led me to, finally, paint and sculpt.
It took me some years before I took myself seriously as an artist, before I bought the finer brushes, the better quality paints the better canvas.
I draw from life and the way I experience it for my art. One of the most powerful experiences that life has given me, has been that of motherhood. There have been, of course, many others, which inform my work.
And then, there is the present. I observe the events around me. I take long walks in London and in our beautiful parks, I see the increasingly crowded streets and underground, the busy mobile phone users in the street. I am aware of the violence, the aggression. I practice ...

Attended Lycee Francais in Sofia Bulgaria. World War Two interrupted my education. Continued studies in art and literature by myself and via various courses in Israel, the UK and the South of France.

2010

Roundwood Lodge Café at Roundwood Park ;
Exhibiting a series of monoprints 'Community'

2010

June 4th to 13th
Retrospective exhibition 'Alone' at The Brunswick Gallery, Bloomsburry, Russell Square, WC1 London

2008

Forthcoming Queens Park Open Studios
planned joint exhibition with Lorenzo Beleguer.

2007

The Gallery at Willesden Green, London

2006

Queens Park Open Studios - Solo exhibition ‘Tao of Time’, London NW6

2004

Queens Park Open Studios - Solo exhibition ‘On Being Human’, London NW6

2002

Galeria Zero – by selection, Barcelona, Spain
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Participated in a 'Small Paintings' exhibition in Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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Queens Park Open Studios - Solo exhibition 'Trees and Towers' , London NW6

2001

Artistic License Gallery - by invitation, Primrose Hill, London NW3
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Picassomio.com – online gallery
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Amber House gallery – solo exhibition, Tideswell , Derbyshire
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Organic Cafe Gallery – solo exhibition, London NW6

2000

Laurence Batley Theatre - by selection
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Amber House Gallery - by invitation, Tideswell, Derbyshire
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Artistic License Gallery - shortlisted in Art competition, Hampstead, London NW3
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Britart.com - online Gallery - all paintings eventually so...