Views from Israel

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Views from Israel
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ARTISTS STATEMENT

• The motif that runs through these paintings is
  that of the relationship of landscapes to my
  essence. The meaningful relationships of color,
  form and structure as well as the subjects of the
  paintings bring to my consciousness those
  memories of beauty and pain, which touch my soul.
• The connection between Earth, the trees and
  grass and rock that obtain their nourishment from
  her on the one hand, and the relationship between
  Woman/Man and Earth, on the other hand is one
  that I have dealt with over the years in my
  works. The symbolic closeness between the two has
  represented a recurring theme. The representation
  of a creative force resultant from the union of
  the two, as well as the unfortunate destructive
  force that often results, continues to this day.
  
• Shoshana Ernst
• September 1, 2006

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The Landscape of the Soul

• Shosh Ernsts vivid, fresh series of paintings
  presents open-wide, sensual and expressive
  landscapes. The loveliness of the drawings allows
  the viewer to experience the beauty of physical
  sights and sites captured by the eye of the
  artist, and in so doing witness the beauty of the
  landscape of her soul. Outer space joins inner
  space and the eye follows the artist brush and
  moves naturally from the beauty of the view to
  the beauty and the mystery of its recollection,
  stamped in color and fabric.
• The paintings showing Israeli scenes - reveal
  the artists power in rendering effortlessly the
  desired reconciliation of the material and
  spiritual worlds.  The light which glimmers over
  the sky and grows brighter and brighter as it
  reaches the fine line of the horizon, encourages
  the observer to go one step further and cross the
  realm of the senses. When the scene includes a
  figure (and it rarely does) the human body seems
  to be engraved in natural materials like stones
  and trees making wild nature look as if it, too,
  is endowed with human inspiration. The talent
  that makes the cello player merge with his
  musical instrument is expounded with the same
  grace in the illustrations of open fields, making
  one realize it is the heavenly music of nature he
  is attuned.
• The joyful melody of nature is reflected through
  bright, gay colors, dominated by crimsons, deep
  and light blues and cool greens and dotted with
  spring-like touch of yellows and pinks.  In her
  powerful brush movement, Shosh Ernst crystallizes
  the elemental forces of nature a flash of fire,
  a rush of wind, a reflection of the restlessness
  of water and the ever- comforting embrace of
  earth.
•  Dr. Amira Eran