Tal Porat

I have been drawing and painting for the last fifteen years, during which I have studied with a number of teachers, including David Nipo and Israel Hershberg. The main part of my training was at the Jerusalem studio school Master Class: a full time program, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. During my studies, I was introduced to the vast tradition of painting, starting with the art of greece and Rome, through the renaissance, all the way to today’s figurative painting. Today, in my studio, i'm continuing to work mostly with traditional mediums – oil paints, charcoal and pencils.

For me, painting is first of all a language, and as all other languages, it requires a community and a history. When I'm painting, I see myself as having a conversation with the artists of ancient greece and rome, and at the same time, thinking about my personal attribution to this tradition, as a modern painter. As in all other languages, painting has its own agreed signes. My work as a painter is to build sentences from pictorial signs such as lines, spots, colors notes, composition, edge and harmony, while continually trying to make them more accurate and precise. I see value in perfecting these pictorial signs. A perfect color note or a precise geom...

Jerusalem Studio School
2012 -2016
Jerusalem studio school masterclass for traditional painting. taught by Israel Hershberg.
JSS in Italy residence program
5 Summers 2012-2017
Jss in Italy residence program summer school for landscape painting. taught by Israel Hershberg & Yael scalia.
David Nipo
2010-2012
Night Classes, painting and drawing, at Studio Hatahana, taught by David Nipo
Wizo academy of design
2005-2009
B.ed at Wizo academy of design
Menahem Mizrhai
2004-2010
Night Classes, Drawing, taught by Menahem Mizrhai

GROUP EXHIBITION

2017 “nylon” event at Tower of David

2017 Jerusalem “Alliance house” group exhibition

2016 “nylon” event at Tower of David

2012 “Eretz Besora” Video art at Tel aviv museum