Jerusalem through the Window White Shade Jerusalem B The Pursuit Land Trees in the Negev Jerusalem A Zephate Corner Dead Sea A Ein Gadi Melting Snow in Mount Hermon Dead Sea B Gallile Landscape A Window in Ein Carem Black Bird Kibbutz Landscape B Kibbutz Landscape A Kibbutz Garden Tree in Blooming David Stream The Bauhinia Bloom Blue Door Gallile Landscape B Red Bench Jerusalem Aquarelle Orange Bench Segev Landscape Trees on the Carmel Mount. Lonely Tree Open landscapes, sceneries seen through the window frame At the start of my creative career I dealt with landscapes as the central topic in my work. I only painted the diverse vistas of our country, semi abstract and open as well as highly structured yet minimalist in their nature. The scenery seen through the window also attracted me very much - it gave me the sense of "here and now," the "faraway" and the framed scenery. The composition of my landscape is on the one hand, organized and structured in the form of configurational minimalism and pastel coloring, and on the other hand takes the shape of open landscapes with wide brush strokes. My vista paintings were mostly created through a preliminary observation of the scenery. The observations were initially translated into aquarelle paintings and only then, at my studio, were transferred to a canvas of larger scales. . The utter majority of the landscape paintings are over one square meter in size. My scenery works have all been painted out of a sense of stoic peace of mind and sentiments of affiliation to the location my eyes were fixed on, a blessed delight from the labor and effort put into the outcome and finally a pursuing spiritual awakening. A great deal of my work deals with sceneries of places across Israel such as Jerusalem, Ein Gedi, the desert, the sea of Galilee and of course sceneries of the Kibbutz at which I live- Yagur