The Open Gallery

My vision realized. I wanted to turn the unused landing into an open gallery, and that is what it now is. It's a nice entrance to my apartment and studio, and I am going to set up the kiln room just off the landing, to have a permanent display/shop. I will advise opening hours and of course just call to set up a time to visit. Its a loft above a commercial building. New York in Pardes Hanna ...

Leonie Barel's Ceramic Art: Open Studio Thursday morning to Saturday Night

Leonie Barel's Ceramic Art: Open Studio Thursday morning to Saturday Night
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Open Studio Thursday morning to Saturday Night

This guy keeps his own secrets, would you trust him with yours? You are invited to check him out.
Most of my secrets, passions, loves, hopes and even disappointments-are all out there to share with you this weekend.
Looking forward to seeing you !

The Mess 3 days before

Every time before open house exhibitions-where ever it is, Los Angeles, Ramat Hasharon, Pardes Hana - there is this incredible mess that seems like things are never going to find their way together into a coherent presentation. Its the mess before it all comes together, hopefully.... I look forward to that moment on Wednesday night - Thursday morning, when everything will be spic and span ( looks like I will be cleaning myself...) marked and tagged, everything properly placed, and I can see the whole picture of what I have been working on.
So welcome you all, I hope you like it too.

Depends on the light and the angle

As I was photographing some new pieces today, I realized that how the light falls and changes the look of my sculptures, so it is also with how we look at life, the people around us, the things they represent. Move the piece around and look at it from a different angle, in different light - and it can be either lovely or unpleasant.


So many times we take one quick glance and make decisions about things.
Do we often stop to ask what it is that is effecting us? Are we not influenced by how the light is falling? Or the angle we are seeing it from?

When we are impatient and react negatively to something, how often do we ask what shadow it casts in us to make us dislike it?

The way the light falls, the shadows that it creates, internal or external, these so often make us love (or dislike ) what we see in others.

The Rain came down

So this is a deluge. A flood in the making.
Non stop rain for days , something has to give in a house made of plaster walls and who knows what on the roof.
I have already established that had I brought an engineer I wouldnt have bought this place, but anyone who has been here knows this would have been a sad mistake.
So, dust yourself off ( ah, so you think there is no dust here when it rains ? hmmm) pick yourself up, ( after slipping on the wet floors) and wait for the rain to stop to find someone to fix the leak in the roof in all three places, and find out why the drains are not working if they arent blocked, so that the water is seeping through the wall to the window frame.

OR, wait till the rain stops and summer comes and worry about it next year.

Whatever.


Oh and by the way if you have a recommendation for someone who fixes this kind of thing in Pardes Hanna area, do tell. I might do it before next winter then.

"Do I look ok?"

This images are of prefire, wet painted greenware

The internal dialogue of self image, comes up in various degrees of understanding and depth, for most women, at various stages of our lifetime.
The weight issue I have been dealing with for so long keeps surfacing and it is partly to do with self image, and much to do with many other elements of emotional status.
Today it popped up in the studio with these two whimsical pieces asking "Do I look OK?"
Realizing that everywoman asks that question regardless of how thin or fat she is, how beautiful and young, or old and worn she is, is not something that happened today.
Working on these two women with many faults, assymetries and insecurities, is one more step towards self acceptance and enjoying my life.