Yitzchak Ben Yehuda

Yitzchak Ben Yehuda

“Of late, my ethnic symbolist paintings enable me to enjoy lending expression to the realms of the imagination, fantasy. I believe one must compose, otherwise people will grow bored. Better to “suggest” than to “describe” so as to let the viewer see what he needs. I am trying to look past what I see, realize my sensations, and in doing, so paint its flying spirit. In other words, have something to say — surprise myself!”
Yitzchak Ben Yehuda

Ben Yehuda was born in Egypt, raised in Switzerland and England. Artistic from an early age, upon his arrival in Israel in 1976, he turned his creative enthusiasm to painting biblical narratives in oils. These innately spiritual paintings reflect an affinity to detail and texture, in swift fields of colour and light, an enchanted world of his own.

Ben Yehuda’s versatility has enabled him to work exclusively for and with private collectors world-wide. Presently he is devoting considerable time and effort to mastering landscape painting of Eretz Israel.

Ben Yehuda, with a directness and fluency which is quite characteristic of his Semitic ancestry, paints from the heart. He is, in fact, a lyricist in paint, and his pictures have their analogies in poetry. He sees in painting, not a means of interpreting the outer world, but a means of expressing the inner self. That is why he uses the essential types of individualistic art – lyricism and symbolism.