 Moshe Dadon
Born in Casablanca Morocco , he returned to the land of his forefathers in 1962.
While working as a police investigator in Safed , he began painting to give expression to his strong feelings about Judaism and the character of Safed.
Mr. Dadon works in Microcalligraphy writing in small letters, and combining texts from the Bible in pictures .
This type of art is known from many hundreds of years ago. There are many different types and styles of microcalligraphy , and Mr. Dadon specializes , unlike others , in hand - printed lettering. The writing is clear and concise , to such an extent that one can read the text with no difficulty.
Preparing each picture can take anywhere from three to twelve months .Each picture is related to the writing. Mr.Dadon mainly draws Biblical characters and major events from the Bible . Alongside , he draws symbolic street scenes, and stories from the holy cities of Israel.
Among his pictures , one can find complete books written in microcalligraphy , such as Genesis , Exodus, etc. Within each picture , the complete book is shown in an artistic manner through several central motifs (i.e. in the book of Genesis : Creation ,Noah`s ark, the sacrifice of Isaak , etc.). One can also find the five Megillos and many others .
Gadi Dadon-
was born to an ultra religious Moroccan family in bnei brak, Israel. The artist's parents ware from morocco. his mother married at 13 years old to a man who worked with his father.the two men hand decorated saddle blankets. Gadi's father and grandfather traveled from village to village in the atlas mountains selling the blankets.
At age 14 gadi was accepted into an art school in Tel Aviv called Vitzo Tsarfat[france]. Hnable to attend do to financial hardship in the family gadi became discontented In his life and left the ultra religious world to explore himself and life's options.
In the '90's gadi traveled around the world and supported himself by painting Sidewalk murals in tel aviv,south Africa and Germany.
Gadi returned to Israel in '99.after a long inner struggle the artist found his truth in Judaism and returned to a religious life. In 2002 gadi married and moved to the mystical city Safed. Gadi manages to capture the spirit of the people in his paint and with his brush molds it onto the canvas.the light of life shines through his landscapes of the ancient Mountains and mystical views.
Irit Goffer-Sasson of Amaro, mother to three children, is everyday proof that dreams can come true at any age.
After graduating from the Instituto Europeo di Design in Italy, and while bringing up her children, she started a career that over the years transformed a pastime that she found irresistible into a business that gives a livelihood to tens of families and has a turnover of millions of dollars.
The variety of different samples in her collections, all bearing her original stamp that are today identified as the Amaro style, have for a long time now served as a source of inspiration in the international fashion jewellery industry.
She draws her own inspirations from everyday life, from the immense power of women in the various cultures she has encountered in her travels around the world.
She gives others strength and strengthens herself and serves as a role model both as a woman and a mother of children and as an art designer who is able to produce every season, thousands of items that are to be found in the best fashion and jewellery stores throughout the world.
Mary Goldmintz - Jerusalem Artist combines in her life and art the connection between the City of gold, of prayer, and hope, and the magic of artistic creation.
Mary, daughter of Bracha and Menachem Lavee, was born in 1972, and raised in Malcha, a picturesque old Middle Eastern village in Jerusalem. Her parents met in "Bezalel" - The leading school of Art and Design in Israel, and started their Art Studio at their figurative house, rising up their family on the values of tradition, aesthetics art and love to Jerusalem. Her mother, Bracha Lavee is a renowned Judaica artist with international acclaim.
Mary draws from her childhood visions the textures, colors, materials and shapes that signify her art, growing up between the Mosque and the synagogue in the domed stone house. During her military service, Mary met Micha her beloved Husband and life companion. Together, Mary and Micha combine spirit and creation with initiative and design. Their art transformed itself over and over again with the use of a large selection of materials and expressions.
By 1994, while studying Industrial design in "Bezalel", Mary and Micha launched their independent artistic career. The couple started a unique artistic carpentry, where Micha built custom made furniture and Mary dressed them in her hand drawn magical designs. Their art led them to design night clubs and coffee houses in Jerusalem and in Tel Aviv, Where Micha's work in metal and wood comes to life and movement with Mary's brush strokes. Mary's art was enriched further through her work as an art teacher in a special education school in Jerusalem.
In the past year, in her home in a small village nestled in the Jerusalem mountain range, Mary created a new innovative expression: Wall – fine art, hand painted metal sculptures. The creation of the sculptures is a delicate process. Starting with a laser cut of the metal, based on Mary's precise sketches, and continues with dressing them up in robes made of splendid and magnificent industrial paints. Layer after layer the colors convey an uplifting atmosphere of tradition coming to blaze.
Mary injects new life to old biblical figures and their country's views. She reclaims their stature in our daily lives and their place in the age of modern abstract art. Through the figurative and beauty, Mary has found a way to connect her modern Israeli existence with her traditional Jewish roots.
Mary: artist, wife, mother and teacher bring to life the ancient beauty of the biblical women. Through the use of the hard cold metal the feminine beauty finds a bold and magnificent expression, just like a jewel on a woman's neck, the sculptures adorn the wall in a game of color, lines, shapes and light. Mary is retelling our traditional stories in a heart warming manner.
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