The Israeli artist Lana Laor studied at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris,
France, as well as with the renown artist, professor Ernst Fuchs in Vienna,
Austria.
Laor has held many one-woman shows in Israel and abroad.
Her outstanding and original works are exhibited in an old beautiful house
with an atmosphere out of this world.
Laor is a member of the Israeli Painters and Sculptors Association as well
as of the Safed Artists' Colony Association.
Laor's own words about her Art works titled Enchanted Safed.
While walking around in the Old City of Safed, I felt like being inside a
theater setting, in an unreal fairy tale, somewhat hovering.
A feeling I didn't have anywhere else on the face of the earth.
This feeling have had a marked impact on my art work in the past three
years, since I moved to live and create in Safed permanently.
I have found here an old stone house which is now my home. Walking around
with a camera and drawing pad, I perceived the blue of the Safed sky
covering the alleys, the patches of mysterious light in the mist, cast by
the old street lamps, the doors which are about to fall down, yet, are held
by locks - to lock in secrets and mysteries. Alleys inhabited by seekers,
seeking answers to existence, both the universal existence as well as their
individual one.
In my painting art work I see a kind of struggle and confrontation. I
challenged myself to capture the unique charm of Safed in oil colors on
canvas - the tools I'm familiar with and with which I can connect - in a
series of paintings that will allow the onlookers to get some of my own
enchanted feelings, that will allow the onlooker to penetrate into this
enchanted dream and hover inside it.
Lana Laor, Safed, Israel, June 1999.
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