ART

Biography

 

Thea Fridman was born and raised in a collective moshav, Israeli community, in the lower land of Israel.  It is in an open and wild nature area mixed with fields of wheat, orchards, and green pastures.

When Fridman was older she finished all the unavoidable parts of school and obligatory army service and moved to Tel Aviv.  Fridman worked some years as a tour guide while attending art studies in Tel Aviv.  After giving birth to her oldest son she moved to Mitzpe Ramon a town in the Israeli desert.

For 18 years she lived in the desert  and was nurturing her art simultaneously with parenting.  The family influence started to show in her art work, as well as the daily images from nature.

After 18 years Fridman came back to Tel Aviv, "where urban nature and humanity resonates themselves as a symphony of shapes, colors, and sounds 24 hours a day."

"Fridman" comes from the Hebrew family name "Fried-man" = a man of peace. This is the family name she received from her father, and that’s the basis in her way of life, "Looking for peace within and around me."   Her father was a "Native Tel Aviv" boy that in his youth took part in establishing the collective community settlement where she was born.  His death as well as the death of her younger brother before him, faced Fridman with agony and sorrow, and at the same time challenged her life. She started to "live through art" after the death of her younger brother she could feel how her art actually saved her and gave Fridman power and strength.