The Bread Maker
In this original painting, inspired by the Renaissance, we meet a young girl standing with impressive serenity in an ancient kitchen. Dressed in a modest white dress with a blue belt and a white veil on her head, she gently kneads dough on a heavy wooden table. Her surroundings are filled with everyday but graceful objects: a golden loaf of challah, clay pots, antique jugs, fresh fruit in a basket, and soft rays of light filtering through a white curtain. The gentle Renaissance light, the play of deep shadows and warm highlights on the dough and her face, gives the painting a sense of everyday holiness. The girl seems absorbed in her work, but also distant in her thoughts, as if she is part of an ancient tradition of women making bread – a symbol of life, abundance and blessing. The painting combines precise realism with a dreamy-romantic atmosphere, and is reminiscent of the beauty of 17th-century Dutch painting, but with a unique personal and cultural touch. One painting from a series of paintings I painted inspired by the Renaissance period.
Roni Ruth Palmer
Painter, writer, owns a painting and sculpture studio where she teaches all ages and trains artists and teachers in Kiryat Haim. She studied art in Israel in Rome and London, where she lived for several years. For several decades, she has dedicated all her time to creation and has presented many solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad. Painting is a way of life for her. The paintings and techniques she uses express different periods in her life, which characterizes the different styles and techniques she uses. What characterizes her, according to her, is that she paints stories with words, and paints stories with a brush
Painter, writer, owns a painting and sculpture studio where she teaches all ages and trains artists and teachers in Kiryat Haim. She studied art in Israel in Rome and London, where she lived for several years. For several decades, she has dedicated all her time to creation and has presented many solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad. Painting is a way of life for her. The paintings and techniques she uses express different periods in her life, which characterizes the different styles and techniques she uses. What characterizes her, according to her, is that she paints stories with words, and paints stories with a brush
