To Paint a Dream From an interview by the late Canadian journalist Maurice Lukow Mordechai’s parents were refugees from pre-war Austria to Birmingham, England where his mother worked in the La Boheme Gallery Café. The owner, the late Andre Drucker was an artist who trained and inspired Mordechai with his reproductions of great impressionist paintings by Renoir and Monet. Meanwhile Mordechai also studied opera and cantorial art. In 1973 Mordechai sang for the Israel National Opera where he married his wife Chana. He credits his wife and three children for inspiring his artistic success. This is evident in Mordechai's Original Oil Paintings, watercolour sketches and magnificent painted wedding ketubahs. The perfect canopy of marriage is a recurrent aspiration in much of his work, it unites heaven and earth, fire and water, light and dark, secular and spiritual. Both with paint brush and vocal chords Mordechai's visions invite the viewer to participate and enter the dream. Maybe an elusive dream of universal peace but surely a dream worth painting. pages: bio | news | exhibits

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