NIZA DAGAN - About my Work

All my life I have loved working with my hands.

When my children went to school we, the parent's, formed

a group for drawing lessons, but I soon discovered that

this was not enough for me.

I took abstract art lessons with a special teacher. Then I

studied in Ein Hod Art School for one year., and after that

I studied in the Avny Institute.

In 1983 I moved to Africa where my husband worked, and

we lived there for some years. The atmosphere inspired

me to start a series of colorful oil paintings with bright and

lively colors, which where the opposite to the dark and

grey surroundings.

After I came back to Israel, I continued to work with oil for

some more years.

I fell in love with watercolors when we moved to live in Venezuela. I was very impressed by the

sensuality of the Latinos women. They were so colorful, so full of movement, and they danced so

sensuously to the Latinos Music. I felt so captivated that all my senses came alive.

I began working with watercolor, teaching myself to capture these vivid impressions. Since then I

have sought to capture the vision and the mysterious essence of these women.

I started to draw Full Women, which I found to have so much beauty and voluptuousness.

The women in my paintings symbolize the spiritual force, the centre around which Life and Nature

revolve.