Rising Through
A portrait in profile of a woman wearing a wide, colorful headscarf, which started as a pen sketch inspired by Ethiopian women in traditional clothing and developed into a clean, realistic painting. Although the figure and headscarf looked technically finished, I felt the exact result was just like a mask, while inside I was bubbling because the painting felt more like a technical job than real expression. In a split-second decision, I took pens and moved to intuitive painting to bring those deep feelings to the surface. These new layers come through in free-flowing lines, delicate plant doodles on her face, drips, and color splashes that mimic what the eyes see while swimming from the deep up to the surface of the sea, along with gold leaf touches in the headscarf and hair. This change turned the painting into something completely honest for me.
Ayelet Hashachar
Ayelet Hashacharโs work grows out of her experiences with people, nature, music and dance, prayer and solitude. Her work moves between femininity and the body, bright colors and delicate drawings, and darker, mysterious images. She is drawn to different worlds that may seem opposite at times, but beneath their differences she feels something they share โ a sense of life and a feeling that awaken in her and find their way into her art. Ayelet Hashachar does not try to show reality exactly as it looks, but to express how she experiences it inside herself. Through figures, lines, movement and shapes, she gives these experiences a form that goes beyond their outer appearance. She began making art at a young age; at 13, she held her first solo exhibition in Tel Aviv and studied at the Center for Excellence in Art in Beโer Sheva. For those who look closely at her work, it can become a kind of open book to her inner world.
Ayelet Hashacharโs work grows out of her experiences with people, nature, music and dance, prayer and solitude. Her work moves between femininity and the body, bright colors and delicate drawings, and darker, mysterious images. She is drawn to different worlds that may seem opposite at times, but beneath their differences she feels something they share โ a sense of life and a feeling that awaken in her and find their way into her art. Ayelet Hashachar does not try to show reality exactly as it looks, but to express how she experiences it inside herself. Through figures, lines, movement and shapes, she gives these experiences a form that goes beyond their outer appearance. She began making art at a young age; at 13, she held her first solo exhibition in Tel Aviv and studied at the Center for Excellence in Art in Beโer Sheva. For those who look closely at her work, it can become a kind of open book to her inner world.
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