About the Artist:
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Eva Strauss-Rosen maintains a well-equipped studio in Willits while dividing her time between Mendocino County and Mountain View.

She studied painting and primarily drawing at the Machon Avni, Art Institute in Tel Aviv in 1979. Eva continued art studies while creating her own collection of Judaica jewelry under the name of Hamsa Design Studio, www.hamsa.com . During her twenty-nine years as a jeweler, she has drawn all designs and calligraphy incorporated in her unique collection of jewelry.
With an intensity and dedication far beyond the intellectual process, Eva now turns her creative process to the media of paper and pencil. Oil paintings are on the horizon.

The many, who are familiar with her jewelry, will find similarities between past creations and this new body of work. Among the most profound elements is her minute interest and dedication to the execution of rendering details of her subject matter.
We live in times of constant change but pencil drawings are created with the same process used by masters of previous centuries. Returning to the simplicity of these methods combined with the use of photo schetching and computers for resource material, Eva will bring forth a body of work, hopefully seen as an extension of previous creations.