SHLOMIT - PAINTER OF NATURE

Shlomit painted nature. When looking at her work - "still-life", nature, landscapes, flowers or sea, it always came to my mind that for me she was the last impressionist. Only a real impressionist catches the moment, freezes the light, covers with his brush the glitter of the color of the grain swinging in the wind, and tirelessly explores the secret of the esthetic structure of nature. Shlomit knew how to give the plain canvas surface the meaning of life, depth and time.

Paul Cezanne beautifully expressed this idea in his letter to Emile Bernard on April 1904: "But nature for us men is more depth than surface, whence the need of introducing into our light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, a sufficient amount of blue to give the impression of air…"

Shlomit remains in my thoughts an optimistic painter who shows the nature as an esthetic whole; therefore she has always searched for the ideal path to achieve her goal. Tens of sketches for each work, the process of learning was almost endless, until, in a splint of a second, the colors came together into splits of light assembling the artistic pattern.

Like every artist, Shlomit too went through different periods of interest in her work: from human portraits to animals, "still-life", nature, and, in her last works, landscapes and many, many flowers. Maybe, only through painting nature Shlomit found what she eagerly searched for - brightness, lightness, amazing colorfulness in her palette, and plenty of optimism and peace of mind.

Shlomit had never shown her work in public. Her family and close friends were the ones to know her work - her art was intimate and preserved only for those whom she loved and shared her artistic experiences with. At the age of 49 Shlomit tragically passed away. We wish, through this virtual exhibition to introduce Shlomit to others too, to share and to feel what we knew and worshiped about her.

Yaron Reshef, November 2001