Skin in the game
When my husband Yehuda and I left Israel and came to Los Angeles – it was right at the beginning of the 60s – he wanted to make a documentary […]
Author Archives: galyatarmu
String of pearls
Someone asked me about a comment I made in the little video posted here – what did I mean by ‘ the pain becomes a pearl’? That has to do […]
Making faces
Sometimes people ask me, Why do you paint mostly portraits? That’s not an easy question to answer, but I think it’s because faces just lead me to everything about nature. […]
There are no rules
The more layers you build up the flatter it gets – the stuff is underneath, so it’s not the same thing as putting it down flat. You’re working in the […]
Rothko
I’m discovering Rothko. It doesn’t make me cry, but it is astonishing. Rothko didn’t have that archaic message that Jung talks about at first. . .but he discovered late in […]
Woman in Blue Reading a Letter
Vermeer? I think it’s not quite understood how powerful he is, how powerful those paintings are and how they totally reach out to you and tell you everything you have […]
in my studio
A friend made this little video of me in my studio about four years ago:
DAY ONE
From the very first, my painting has always been about connections. It is connections that lead to inevitable outcomes in my work and finally to a sense of ‘thereness’ that I […]
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