My Story
My romance with metals started at a very young age, when my dad gave me an electronic tin soldering tool and let me play with it, immediately I fell in love with the idea of melting metals and reshaping them.
Over the years I've tried my hand at many artistic disciplines including painting, sculpturing, photography, silversmithing, beadwork, and even computer animation. However, my greatest passion has always been in creating metalworks and material combinations, and time after time again my heart has led me towards it.
As a kid, I grew up in a small village on the north side of Israel. My hometown was surrounded by forest and as a curious kid, I used to spend a lot of time in nature. I was fascinated by all the small details nature is hiding, the textures, the shapes, the chaos, and the order of things. many years passed since then, and I lived in big cities for most of them. This mixture of urban life and nature affecting me a lot in the last few years and I try to communicate it in many of my works.
My hope is that my works will be able to cross cultures, combine them, and mix them together to something new that can touch the observer's hearts.
-- Tal Amitai
