Commissioned portraits
The artist

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.

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.

Avigail Sarid in the studio, beside a work in progressAvigail painting by the window
How it began

A brush in hand, for as long as I remember

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.

Hands holding paint tubes in the studio
The studio · Ein Karem

“A moment when I remembered not only how to keep creating, but why.”

From what I wrote after the opening of “War on the Home”, 2026
A watercolour portrait, at the moment of giving
From the studio to the world

The paintings leave the studio

From a gallery in Tel Aviv to the Jerusalem Biennale and the State Comptroller’s Office, my paintings are shown in places where they touch people.