Wedding Ketubah: Personalized Illuminated Marriage Contracts

About the Artist

Yitzhak Ben Yehuda

Born in Egypt, raised in Switzerland and England, Yitzhak Ben Yehuda's creative enthusiasm to painting biblical narratives in oils is exemplfied in personalized Ketubot. These innately spiritual paintings reflect an affinity to detail and texture, in swift fields of colour and light, an enchanted world of it's own. His versatility has enabled him to work exclusively for private collectors world-wide. Presently he is devoting considerable time and effort to mastering landscape painting of Eretz Israel. "Of late, my ethnic symbolist paintings enable me to enjoy lending expression to the realms of the imagination, fantasy. I believe one must compose, otherwise people will grow bored. Better to "suggest" than to "describe" so as to let the viewer see what he needs. I am trying to look past what I see, realize my sensations, and in doing, so paint its flying spirit. In other words, have something to say -- surprise myself!" Ben Yehuda, with a directness and fluency which is quite characteristic of his Semitic ancestry, paints from the heart. A lyricist in paint, his pictures have their analogies in poetry. He sees in painting, not a means of interpreting the outer world, but a means of expressing the inner self. That is why he uses the essential types of individualistic art - lyricism and symbolism.