Irena Spector-Srebnogur

I was born in Odessa, Ukraine where I graduated the Grekov's Art school in 1988. In 1990 I immigrated to Israel, where continued my art education in the studios of Israeli painters side by side with receiving degree in medicine and specializing in psychiatry. Currently I combine my work as Senior Psychiatrist in Tel Aviv Medical Center with watercolor painting and watercolor instruction activities .

My first encounter with watercolor was in an art school of Odessa when I was about ten years old. The media of watercolor was considered to be "beginners staff" used mostly for sketches and as a preparation for more "serious" oil paintings. Only after many years I have explored these media for itself and fell in love with it. It attracts me for its transparency, unpredictability and the light in it.
My main subject is city landscape , but I like to explore and try myself in different areas like portraiture, still life and abstract. I usually get inspired by views of a city during walking or traveling by car, especially when there is a jam and there is a time to look around. Sometimes it's only a few moments that make me feel "that is it, I like it and I want to paint it", but usually it takes a lot of time to explore the subject, t...

2019 - le Salon International de l'Aquarelle «Confluences», 12th Festival International, Aiguillon, France
2019- 29e Salon International de l'Aquarelle d'Uckange, France
2018 - 3ème biennale internationale d’aquarelle du Léon, 2018
2016 – Jaffa Boulevard – urban sketches, Noga district, Tel-Aviv,
2015 – Sketch it @Loveat – Expo at coffeshop, Urban sketchers Israel, Tel Aviv
2014 – Tribute to Picasso, group exhibition Bat Yam cultural center Israel
2014 – The return of original, Israeli museum of caricature and comics, Holon
Publications
This is music , 44 degrees art magazine , December 2014