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EITAN-FRIEDMAN CONTACT ME email: moef@aapt.net.au JEWELLERY WATERCOLOUR OIL |
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About the Artist Artist Eitan Friedman
has lived in Fremantle Western Australia for the past thirty four years,
cycling around town and swimming in South Beach. He grew up in Israel and
studied mechanical engineering completed his B.Sc at the Technion in
Haifa. After active service in the army ending in 1973 he came to live in
Western Australia. Eitan studied Art and Design at Perth and Fremantle TAFE
and has worked as an artist/jeweller, part time ceramic tiller and yoga
teacher and engineer. Eitan has been exhibiting since 1992 and has had eighth
solo exhibitions. He lives with his wife Margo O’Byrne. He has had one
daughter Lee Dauven form his first marriage to Sara Friedman. |
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JEWELLERY
I
continue to develop the work with a limitation on the technique, with the
minimum of fabrication. This means that I don’t use much soldering, but
instead I try to create with one piece. I’m looking for the feeling of
antiquity in contemporary pieces. Fabrication is a useful technique and very
powerful, but it creates a mechanical or industrial effect. What I’m
after is the hand made effect; jewellery as art. It’s somewhat like
painting, where every mark that ever went on the canvas is still there. In my
pieces, the history of the work is shown and I try to make it look simple. In
this way it has parallels to the way a blacksmith works, with hammer marks
and heating, re-heating and beating. When the piece is finished, the marks
are still there. The other parallel is origami, where you take a piece of
paper and fold and re-fold to make a three dimensional piece where the first
fold already directs the last fold |
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WATERCOLOURS
Terrestrial
orchids, I go out in the spring and look for the native terrestrial orchids
in Perth’s special bushlands, such as Samson Park, Wireless Hill and
Kings Park. I sit for a couple of hours and paint on site. That way I can
capture the relationship between one or two orchids or between an orchid and
the surrounding bush. Sometimes they feel like they are dancers, especially
the spider orchids, sometimes they seem cheeky, as if they’re playing
tricks. They are often hard to find, even when you look at them directly, but
once you’ve seen them, especially when you sit to paint them they are a
marvel. Other watercolours are painted during our trips in Western
Aaustralia. Most are from the south- west, near Dunsborough and Quindalup
and, Margaret River Elizabeth
St Reserve and wetlands south of Perth. Others
are from a recent trip to the Kimberley with Sam Lovell and from our
‘camps’ on our return trip through the Pilbra and the Murchison
and to Ningaloo
previously. Sitting on the ground means re-connect with the earth and
it’s from this space that I paint. |
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OILS
I
incorporated a technique I have learnt from the Fremantle artist, Jill
Kempson, which requires the designer to be careful and not loose the light. I
try to build up transparent layers, and in this way I’m influenced by
my affinity to watercolour Artist art
jewellery jeweller painter painting Margo O’Byrne south-fremantle
Israel tiling tiler ukulele Lee Dauven Taly Bela Marion tank tanks Golan swim
yoga Perth mechanical engineer Technion Haifa Kiryat Byalik Buchan Shiko
South Terrace Michael Knight Bathers Beach South Beach Louisa wise. |
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Work in progress July August 2009 From the trip to
Queensland and Melbourne
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My last exhibition October/ November 2008 At Kidogo Fremantle
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RING July 2009 Gold-18ct black-pearl steel
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BROOCH July 2009 Gold-18ct silver black-pearl fresh-water-pearl
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PENDANT August 2009 Diamond (pink Argyle). Gold-18ct (rose and white). Sterling silver
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Links to: Margo
O’Byrne’s book ‘Left Unsaid’
http://www.margoobyrne.com.au
google sites
artistjeweller/Eitan
http://www.save-ningaloo.org/frames/media/friedman/friedman.html http://www.creativecourses.com/ |
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