Shaula Schaham is an Israeli artist who studied design. Her taste for combinations of colors and shapes is very evident in her works. She uses a mixed technique and prefers collage.  Her refined and elegant eye leads her to compose unique and original works.  In her work “My Golden isle of Dreams” Shaula creates an original and pleasant composition of geometric shapes. The space is marked by black lines. Two humans are recognizable, one from the front and one from the side.  The color seems to have a life of its own. It breaks on the canvas without a premediated order, following instinct and spontaneity. Many shades of purple, pink, red, yellow, green color on the canvas creating a dynamic and suggestive effect. The two figures are presumably a man and a woman. The man on the side wears a top hat with a flower. The woman, frontal, is very elegant, both in clothes and makeup. They are stylized and blend in with the bright, vivid color.  Evident is Shaulas taste in decoration and combinations.

The colors are perfectly juxtaposed together, blending into other, creating striking mixes. The canvas has several interesting textures. The work thus takes on texture and become material. Flowers, lines, dots, solid color. The combination appears well balanced and very precious. The brightness of the colors is wonderful and perfectly matches the different textures that alternate in the work.

Shaula expresses very deep and contrasting feelings. It is almost a magical vision, a dreamlike atmosphere, an abstract vision of reality where you can be free and yourself. Bodies lose consistency and importance given to the varied and colorful soul of people.

There are many artistic references used by Shaula that she revises and re-proposes in a modern and original way. Certainly, the influence of the avant-garde is recognizable, especially cubism.  The scanning of space, the simplicity of the forms and the use of different textures recall the works of Picasso or Baroque.  In the work we find closed two-dimension surfaces, flat backgrounds with colors that blend together without creating volumes. The work therefore appears as something evanescent, dissolvable.  The synthesis of the work emphasizes the mental and not the physical aspect of painting. The work lies somewhere between figurative and abstract as the real forms begin to lose consistency.

Shaula proves to be very adept as juxtaposing pleasing colors and shapes that contain within them different meanings and generates multiple emotions.  The viewer is overwhelmed by the beautiful color combinations and the sheen produces by the canvas.

Ilaria Falchetti

Art curator in MADS gallery, Millan Italy.

An emotional and exiting figuration that of Shaula Schaham.  A figuration whose guidelines are characterized by the great harmony with which the painter outlines the narrative.  Shaula’s work are real poetic whispers.  Works, which dance in space, and which are characterized by the chromatic refinement and the great power of the sign.   Works that tell the feelings felt by the figure represented. The artist, through a figuration that I would define as sublime, tells the observer her stories. Stories, whose beauty seduces the eye of the bystander, who can only observe them with dreamy eyes.  The visual representations of Shaula Schaham therefore do not need to “scream” to be heard.  The refined plot and the learned language make these works masterpieces.  Masterpiece free from external influences, destined to remain over time.  In the figures represented there is a great “feeling”, feeling that turns into ecstasy of the psyche.  The reality in the artist’s works becomes harsh and has no fear of showing the truths.  Creative energy as an engine.  This is the fundamental characteristic of Shaula’s works. Energy that is expressed by the artist through great gestures. A visual dialectic full of new terms with which to express one’s feelings.

Dr. Francesko Saverio Russo