Netta Canfi

After 14 years of commercial animation, I started painting outdoors with a friend. Over two years of painting trips, a theme emerged: "Half a Tree".

This is what I call the trees on the streets of Tel Aviv that are planted too close to a building, so half their canopy gets cut off.

In these outings, I discovered many more types of "Half Trees" - various ways in which humans shape nature, especially in agricultural uses.
The net-covered fruit trees became an obsession of sorts; they inspire me to play with their shapes.

On weekends I fly gliders and see the world from another perspective.

Drawing while flying is, well, inadvisable, so I practice remembering what I see. From cloud-base, not very high, I see more types of manmade landscapes.

I often paint these experiences from memory, sometimes mixed with imagination. These types of works have less detail and more emotion in them.

I explore the shapes that I see: the wild ones, the man-made ones, and what happens when they interact.


Bio
I was born in the desert, in the bright yellow light of Beer Sheva, Israel.

I've lived in the clear mountain air of Jerusalem, in grey Brighton, England, in the heart of the White City of Tel Aviv, and I now live and wo...

1999-2003: Animation, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel

1996 Art in the Technological Era, Open University course, Tel Aviv, Israel

1982-1994: Be'er Sheva Youth Art Center, Multiple courses, Be'er Sheva, Israel

Solo Exhibitions

2021, Taking a Walk - Wild vs. Manmade Landscapes, Givat Ada Library, Israel.

2011, Burning of the Dead, Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv Israel (installation)

2009, Claustrophobia, Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (installation)

Group Exhibitions

2021, Nature, Environment and Sustainability in Contemporary Israeli Art, Bat Yam Art Institute, Israel.

2012, Self Portrait, (Title of my work - Half a Tree), Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel