ORNA L.BROCK — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Biography

She is currently living & creating her art works in Jerusalem. Israel.She studied Fine Arts at Oranim Institute of Art and Design. Israel and studied Education,Bachelor of Education (B.ed) Oranim Academic College of Education Kiryat Tivon, Israel.
She studied Fine Arts, at Hampstead School of Art. London U.K & Photography, in Kingsway
College London,U.K. She received an award on a group of sculptures she created (1995) from “The Foundation for Supporting Artists of the United Kibbutz Movement”. She was awarded "The International Giotto Prize” in (2019) Lisbon Portugal & also awarded The “Leonardo Da Vinci International Prize” (1/2020) in Florence Italy.
She was selected by the International Art Market Magazine - The Gold list Special Edition #4
2019, as one of the top contemporary artists of today. She was awarded “The International Prize Artist of the year 2020“ in Monreale. Sicily. Italy & also Awarded The international Prize "New York city" White space Gallery. Chelsea. NYC.USA.
She is chosen to participate in the book “Artisti” 2021.“Annuario Internazionale D’Arte contemporanea” Published by Art Now in Italy. In July 2021 she is awarded the international prize Michelangelo David Prize 2021 of the Accademia Italia in arte nel mondo. In Lecce Italy.

Artist Statement

I see my paintings as a kind of memory script which is encoded waiting to be revealed or decoded & interpreted by the spectator. The objects or the remnants of images are creating a certain vocabulary & atmosphere in the picture. The landscape, like an inner courtyard, is portraying at the same time, a specific biosphere or zone to which I am very much attached as well as the inner world of the subconscious.
Sometimes I am imagining my landscapes as a womanly dress on which all sorts of objects & elements are being implanted. The landscape contains remnants & hints of objects which are appearing & being imprinted from my experiences or memories.I like to see my attitude to landscape paintings similar to the way Paul Klee expressed about the artist's position: “He neither serves nor commands- he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own: it has merely passed through him”….

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