Osnat Zemach-Shavit - ossha
Drawing
The eternal bursts forth with the spring in the heart of the desert; cradled by waves shattering on the rocks; soaring with the moon into the dark heavens; spiraling with the shadows of autumn leaves. This movement is life. The infinite dance of creation. The canvas, the brushes, and the tubes of paint make the music that invites me to dance.
Osnat Zemach-Shavit, was born in 1965 in Tel Aviv, and is a graduate of the Israel Painters & Sculptors Association Workshop, 1985, and of the Faculty of Architecture, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 1992.
Osnat won the Leon Raskin Award for Movie Theater Design in Haifa and an award for designing the Democratic High School in Tel Aviv..
In recent years, Osnat has devoted herself to painting . Her paintings are an eclectic weave of times and streams that bring a new quality to the surface.
I use acrylics, chalk, oil pastels and pencils, seeking in the white of the canvas what it would like it to become. The unexpected combination of pallet knife, and the precision of the brush creates multiple textures as well as transparent and opaque areas. By layering color on color, texture on texture, a spontaneous process of discovery and surprise occurs. This process is essential to the finished work. The free pallet of colors reflects the range of emotion, dominated by a vibrant, optimistic temperament.