Colour,water,light,shadowand transparency.
Welcome to my world.
About Avigail
Nice to meet you. I’m Avigail Sarid, wife of Hadar and mother of Netzach, Noam, Shaked and Re’em. A Jerusalemite, always.
I’ve held a brush since childhood. It’s the language I’ve used to make sense of the world around me. I found my way to watercolour almost cosmically, after my eldest daughter was born and I became a mother. I realised that life’s new challenges were drawing out my work at full strength.
My work moves between a few themes. Family: the people close to me, our shared stories and the ties between us, which I interpret through family and single portraits. Belonging, and the idea of home in all its meanings. And of course Jerusalem, my birthplace, which I paint through its buildings, its alleys and the stories they reveal.
Watercolour is a mirror of the soul. It brings us face to face with the deepest places inside us, and my work looks for truth, purity, clarity, and the search for an endless light.
Original paintings and prints, from the studio in Ein Karem to your wall
Walk Jerusalem’s paths with me, in watercolour
From my brush to your wall
Every painting is made by hand in my studio in Ein Karem. The prints are made by a fine-art print lab and sent from there straight to you.
In the studio
Every painting begins by the window in Ein Karem, by hand: a brush, water and paper.
The scan
The original is scanned at high resolution, so every transparency and every tone carries into the print.
At the lab
A fine-art print lab prints each one on archival paper, with the care the original deserves.
On its way to you
A print comes to you straight from the lab, by courier. An original I wrap myself and send to you.
Your story, in watercolour
A family portrait, the house you grew up in, or someone you want to remember. I paint from conversation, photos and memories, and send a sketch for approval before the brush touches paper.
- 01Send photos and your story
- 02Intro call and quote
- 03Deposit and booking
- 04Sketch for approval
- 05The painting
- 06Delivery
4–6 weeks from sketch approval · every painting a one-of-a-kind original
Something to hang on the wall, and remember
A gift that stays on the wall for years. Choose a work, add a greeting to your order, and it is sent straight to the recipient.
Wedding and new homeWorks about home, roots and belonging, for the first wall in a shared home.Suggested: Ein Karem · Talbiya
Bar and Bat MitzvahJerusalem, a verse, and something that stays from the day.Suggested: Tower of David · Mount Zion
A gift from JerusalemFor friends abroad, for those who left, for those who miss it.Suggested: Temple Mount · The Old City