A day inside my Tel Aviv art studio

A studio day does not begin with a perfect plan. It begins with looking, moving things, opening colours, listening to the room and waiting for the first honest impulse. At Esther Cohen Atelier & Gallery in Tel Aviv, the studio is both a working space and a place where visitors can feel the life behind the paintings.

Some days begin with a canvas already carrying marks from the day before. Other days begin with a clean surface that feels almost too quiet. Colour usually enters first. A pink, a blue, a yellow or a dark line can change the direction of the whole painting. The process is not linear. It is a conversation between control and accident.

Tel Aviv is present in the work even when the painting is not about the city. The speed, heat, noise, intimacy and contradictions of the city enter the rhythm. The studio on Shenkin 34 becomes a place where outside energy turns into gesture, layer and texture.

Visitors often see finished works, but the studio holds the invisible parts too: doubt, repetition, risk, laughter, unfinished canvases and sudden clarity. That is why entering a real artist studio feels different from seeing art online. You meet the work in the place where it is still becoming.