Zahara Rubin

As a mother of four and having worked in different sectors of the Kibbutz, she went to study sculpture with sculptor Yaakov Epstein, in the Plastic Arts Academy of Bat-Yam.

In recent years she tends to work on subjects like inter-human relationships, closeness and separation, oddities and socially acceptable, close by and far-away, giving artistic expression to accumulating emotions, transmission of sentiments and feelings between spouses, longings for relationship and love of the family.

The contrasts between the artist and her human milieu create conflicts that, being stormy, hard and unsolved has a lot of influence on the forming of the work.

In Soft Painting - sheaves of colored fibers laid on a felt sheet replaces the brush and palette of the painter.

The results - big pictures, abstract in nature or of imaginary creatures in magic atmosphere – are rich in colors and forms.