Artist Spotlight - Dita Jacobovitz — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Biography

Now to sum it up now looking backwards It is my parents different origins that gave me the ability to do art and even the fact they did not see art as a profession . This gave me the commitment to do art.

I was born in Israel. My father was born in Belgium and my mother in Denmark. I went to the Artists House during my childhood. I am married and a mother of three. All These years we have been living in a small village in the north of Israel.

Most of my landscape paintings are from my Residential area and from north Italy. I use various techniques but mostly oil on canvas, sometimes the place is the same spot, but the art works are so different. The landscape I observe changes I keep in my memory and spell it out like an archive story. It is like a magnet that keeps me on this endless trail.

My art courses were in Civita Castellana, the Hirschberg JSS Art School in Italy with Sigal Tsabari and have been attending Aram Gershoni’s master class in Tel Aviv for 2 years. My web site can show that it is indeed an ongoing process.

The lake, 2026, oil on canvas, 100*70 cm

I am a member of the Circle foundation of the Arts. list of publications can be found in my website as well as list of exhibitions I have participated in USA. Italy and here in Israel.

Imagination, 2026, oil on canvas, 50*100 cm

During the last 3 years I have participated in a Gilda course that evolved to a very important exhibition called "pause" included artworks of all artists in this group with curators that coached us during this period.

Artist Statement

I paint landscapes. You could say I paint a single landscape, always beginning from observation, even though it has been familiar to me for four decades. This repeated investigation becomes an act of meditation, one that instills a sense of peace and hope. I never feel tired of the landscape around me; it continues to offer something new each time I return to it.

Pilatis with the view , 2026, oil on canvas, 70*100 cm

Over the years, this process has changed. Today, I no longer seek descriptive accuracy, but rather an openness to the sensory level of experience. My work takes place within a figurative space where perception, memory, and presence overlap, allowing the landscape to be felt rather than simply represented.

Diamonds are forever , 2026, oil on canvas, 80*100 cm

Each work is born from the one before it, like a continuous internal conversation in which time accumulates, shifts, and reorganizes itself. The paintings are not isolated images, but part of an ongoing sequence of thought and looking.

My preoccupation with color itself—even when it seems absent—remains central and continues to fascinate me. It is what sustains this long, continuous pictorial journey, where every gesture carries traces of the moment as well as deeper layers of time.

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