Artists

Irit segal Israeli

Born in Haifa in 1944, fifth generation in Israel. Until 1984, she played basketball in the national league (Maccabi Haifa). Since 1985 has created art, particularly sculpture, with various materials. From 1997 until today uses iron with an individual technique based on cutting, welding and assembly of a basic shapes, the chief of component of the technique being the “softening” of the material and its “domestication” into the desired shape.
As I spent my childhood in the Haifa, the Carmel hillside and the rich landscape of pine tree tops, replete with cones and childish wooden houses, appeared in my first art works. Nature has always been a great inspiration in my work, and helps me to convey my deepest insights through dialogue and with utter respect.

The works “A House Should Have a Tree” are from the series – Houses and Masks
The real home is the one that goes with you everywhere.
A tree marks a place, a tree for me is a home.
I grew up in the trees.