Mordechai Edel

 

“ To Paint a Dream ”  
  Mordechai’s parents were refugees from pre-war Austria to Birmingham, England where his mother managed the La Boheme Gallery Café.
 The  gallery owner, the late Andre Drucker was an artist who trained and inspired Mordechai with his reproductions of great impressionist and surrealist paintings by Renoir , Monet and Chagall.
Although viewers often remark of  a similarity to Chagall's style, Mordechai says that his only association with Chagall is that Chagall died on the 28th March ,the same date that Mordechai was born !  

 In addition to oil painting Mordechai also studied opera and cantorial art.
In 1973 Mordechai sang for the Israel National Opera where he married his wife Annie.
 They presently reside in Vancouver Canada where 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 “ImpressionMystic” vision in much of his work aspiring to unite the opposites of heaven and earth, fire and water, light and dark, secular and sacred. 
 With paint brush and vocal chords Mordechai's visions invite his clientele to participate and enter the dream.
  Maybe Mordechai's painted dream of universal harmony is somewhat elusive but surely it is a dream worth painting.