Israel

Israel 2014
I had few requests to add some pictures from my trip to Israel. As you can guess I had several highlights and no doubt some of the pictures will tell a story or two. I am sure I’ll mention some in the future as I met some great people. However, I had a special story which I would like to mention as it is very much to do with art.
On my flight to Tel Aviv I sketched for a while to pass some time (4 ½ hours), highly recommend it. Across the aisle I saw a lady showing some paintings to her colleague and I was sure she was watching me sketching too. I looked at the paintings on her laptop screen and after a short time I could not resist so I asked her who those abstract paintings belong too and who was the artist? The lady said it was herself  and we engaged in a conversation about her work and what she does, I introduced my story and love of painting. I will not mention the lady’s name here just in case she does not want me to do so. As it happened she was a Palestinian and she told me how she started painting some 10 years ago in college, funnily enough with the fellow who she met on the flight. She also told me that she runs some workshops and teaches children to paint in few places in the West Bank. I was very impressed and thought what a great idea it was and I was very proud to hear her story. I immediately suggested that if there was anything I could do to support such a great activity and keep the children away from trouble. If we can teach more children to use brushes and paints instead of throwing stones surely we need to encourage and support it. As you know I am not interested in politics and hope not to receive any comments here also. I hope that this great lady will write back to me as we discussed. I am sure we can try to help her and the children in the group to learn to paint by any means. I also believe that as artists we have a role to make it a better world and it would be hard to find a greater example than this. I am sure many more here, who read this can also help, as no doubt it will make a better place for children on either side and for us all.

In the mean time enjoy some of the pictures and I’ll add a post with some of the sketches soon. Hope you will also enjoy my trip, the smells and the colours of the places and hopefully one day it will be a shrine not for only amazing holy spiritual places but with a true peace. As many would say…. Inshallah

Happy New Year

What a great year 2013…. welcome 2014 and Happy New Year to you all, thank you for making last year a great year. I could not enjoy it as much with out you my friends… Loads of health to us all and less pains hopefully..

I don’t watch much TV, but I recently saw a program about the kids that are living in the refugee’s camps in Lebanon in freezing conditions in the open winter air, with hardly suitable cloths and food. They managed to survive and escape the internal war in Syria. I also watched Malala from Pakistan that got shot by the Taliban in an interview on CNN and  I think as bloggers we have some responsibility and maybe we have some voice which we are not aware about. I can see that our blogs are being read all over the world and we should and must use it to relay a loud message to the open world. I am not a politician but far from it but as an artist I think that our message should be that; from 2014 we should not let anyone the right to abuse anyone anywhere around the world. It does not matter what is the reason if right or wrong, no person child adult or elderly female or male should be exposed to bad treatment anywhere. We have enough resources to help everybody to maintain their dignity and humanity, we should defend and protect those innocence that always suffer the consequences of someone else good or bad interest. It is enough we need to deal with nature disasters around the globe like in the Philippines. Lets unite together and stand by those people and make sure that we don’t arm the planet we are living on using it resources so our grandchildren will be able to use it safely too.

Thank you for visiting my blog during the year and please stay safe, healthy, you and your family where ever you are. I dedicate those flowers for you all, best wishes and Happy New Year, Doron

Peace and Happy New Year

To my family, friends, followers and everybody who will read this message. In a couple of days it will be the Jewish New Year. I would like to thank you all for being part of my community and my little world. I also would like to use this platform to send a message to the bigger world watching recent news unfold, seeing the huge problems that we have around us. There is something civilised called dialog, please let us all learn how to use it instead of killing each other for the sake of our opinion. Let us stop all the blood shade and the harming of each other for very little reasons or for any reason at all. Let us stop the hate and forcing our views, philosophy on other people who disagree with us for what ever their reason is. Please let us stop the killing of those innocent little children, elderly or any people on this planet.

I dedicate you all this beautiful flower that hopefully will brighten your life set your mind and make it a peaceful world. I wish you all a better healthy Happy New Year.

Jerusalem

There is many nice cities around the world but one very special, in my mind. I know it is a very important place for many others too. A place which is the centre of the world, a place that unite so many people from all over the world, and at times separate them too. Yet people fought each other to gain hold for this special city over many years. I hope my splash of colours will make it peaceful and harmonising for all.