This is the moment before, Painting, Oil on Canvas, 2020

Asher Topel  

Artist Statement:

Born in Argentina, 1942. Resident in Israel Memmber of a Kibbutz 14 years, later moved to the Ashkelon city, worked as Industrial Enginer in a Textile Plant, when retired start to dedicate to paint, feeling as if I was waiting for that moment to dedicate myself to the painting (2008)
Married, 1 son, 2 daughter and 9 grandchilds

Education:

Self -tought
I studied in workshops with different artists, so I came across different ideas, techniques and philosophies of art. The artists were: Sapir College, with Ziva Ilin, Liab Mizrahy, Museum Tel-Aviv (Meirhoff) with Ayelet Carmi. Ashkelon with Ricardo Lapin, Lev Tochner, Nitzanim with Pnina Ben-Gal, Ashkeln with Eli Zorfaty.

Exhibitions:

Personal exhibitions : Ashkelon, White Gallery (Hatzor), Leonardo Gallery (Tel Aviv) , Gallery Ephrat (Tel Aviv)
Many group exhibitions

Artistic Influences:

My paintings are mostly images when I saw them made me think about them or situations related to them, in some way moved or touched me.
In some of the works I am based on photographs from a collection I have accumulated while traveling abroad and in Israel
Some of the paintings depict a response to events that happened or to a sentence I heard or read
I did not study art history, or art studies, I just went through workshops to learn the techniques of painting, I do not even know how to define the style of my paintings