b. 1953
Born: Kfar-Saba, Israel
Active ceramist: 47 years
Mentor/s: Lucie Rie, David Cohen
Why Clay?
The moment I touched clay, something in me was alighted. I am driven by passion, by shape and by the unknown. I somehow stumbled upon it…. (I’s a long story)…I studied at Wizo Tsarfat in the 1960ies with my teacher Paula Aharonson; she was a student at the Bauhaus in the ceramics department and came to Israel in 1933. Paula wrote in the magazine for the Israel Ceramics Association in the 1980ies: ” pottery of classical vessels made on the wheel is slowly disappearing from the ceramic landscape, and I insist on continuing making just those classical vessels which I studied and taught, and whom I love.” This kind of spirit talks a lot to me too….
What do I want to convey?
How such a wonder is created, when a lump of soft and wet clay turns into a steady, hard yet fragile shape.
What characterizes my work process?
The ongoing search for the form and the void; the inside and outside; the centering of the clay; the opening – the base- the walls; foot-body-shoulders; and then the language which finally creates a clear expression.
My tools of choice… Can’t create without them:
A metal kidney which David Cohen cut from a spatula; It has a really good shape, and he gave me at the beginning of my career.
Absolutely necessary in my working environment?
The wheel, clay, water, quiet
