Painting from Intuition and Structure – Inspired by Life Between Israel and Germany

I (Sally Ido) have been living in Germany again since 2025. However, my artistic roots lie in Israel, where I grew up and discovered my passion for painting early on. Life between Israel and Germany continues to shape my work today.

Painting has never been just a hobby for me. It is my way of making inner processes visible – thoughts, moods, and images that cannot be put into words. Even though I often begin with an idea, my work develops intuitively. I deliberately allow the image space to develop further during the process.

I work primarily with acrylic paints on canvas and integrate materials such as sand from the Israeli Sea, autumn leaves, plaster, and texture pastes. The combination of natural materials, tactile textures, and free brushstrokes lends my works depth and presence. My visual language is often surreal, yet not unsettling—it invites the viewer to pause and engage with the work.

In recent years, a special form of collaboration has developed: a friend and amateur photographer, Danny Eliahu, occasionally sends me photographic images, snapshots such as a moon behind barbed wire or nocturnal landscapes. These photographs serve as inspiration. On the canvas, they form independent, free interpretations.

In exhibitions, photography and paintings are therefore often presented together—as a juxtaposition of the initial moment and artistic transformation, of reality and imagination.

My art does not seek to explain.

I would be delighted to welcome you to my exhibition starting February 21, 2026.

The opening is on February 22, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. at Erzhammer, 3rd floor.

A selection of my works can be found below.