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Feeling art

The Artists’ House is a natural place for 6th-generation Jerusalemite David Ben-Shaul to show his paintings.

David Ben Shaul Self Portrait
Photo by: Avraham Chai
Painting, like any art form, requires a great degree of technical knowhow, but 79-year-old David (Dedi) Ben-Shaul prefers a more intuitive approach. This is evident from the works in his current “Landscape, Portrait, Still Life: Three Decades” exhibition at the Jerusalem Artists’ House, which were all created in the past 30 years. The exhibition was curated by Ilan Wizgan.

The venue is a perfectly natural place for Ben-Shaul, a sixth-generation Jerusalemite, to show his work. Even though he and his wife Eleanor relocated to Moshav Ilaniya, or Sejera, near Golani Junction in the Lower Galilee six years ago, his heart is very much still in this neck of the woods.

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