About the artist
Miriam Schlossberg
An Israeli artist who paints in oil on canvas. She creates flower paintings in a style she developed herself, Gobelin painting: layer upon layer of paint woven onto the canvas like a tapestry.
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The story
“Born with a
paintbrush in her hand”
Some artists learn art; others grow up inside it. Miriam Schlossberg was born in Moscow to a painter father and an art-critic mother. She spent her childhood in her father’s studio, rich with the smells of turpentine and paint, which he shared with other artists.
Artists would come to paint and sculpt, and at the end of the day they gathered for long conversations and critique. While they worked on their canvases, she worked in clay, sculpted and fired her pieces in the kiln. Above all, she listened.
Her father did more than paint; he taught her. He took the foundations of painting apart in front of her and put them back together, passing on not only a skill but a way of thinking.
In Israel
In 1987 Miriam immigrated to Israel. From 2013 to 2014 she studied with the painter Yossi Rosenstein, and from 2015 to 2017 with Rachel Shavit and, in parallel, with Arie Berkovitz. They deepened the language that had already begun to take shape in her.
Since then she has held three solo exhibitions: “Figures of Bnei Brak” (2019) and an exhibition of portraits (2022), both in Bnei Brak, and “Landscapes” in Netanya (2023). Alongside each exhibition she led master workshops and courses in “Developing a Personal Handwriting in Painting,” attended over the years by dozens of women.
A turning point came when she met one of Israel’s leading art curators. Visiting the studio, the curator recognized in Miriam’s work a unique fingerprint, an “artistic DNA” she had never seen before.
Today
Miriam lives and works in Bnei Brak. She paints in oil on canvas, accepts commissions for personal paintings, and teaches painting workshops for women, including her flagship course, “Developing a Personal Handwriting in Painting.” In January 2027 she presents a solo exhibition of botanical art at the Eshkila Gallery in Jaffa.
The style
Gobelin
painting
Miriam is fluent in several styles, from portraits to landscapes, but over the years she has developed a language of her own: Gobelin painting. Layer upon layer of oil paint is woven onto the canvas into a texture reminiscent of an antique Gobelin tapestry. From a distance, a flower appears; up close, every centimeter is a weave of color, light and movement.
Her painting does not begin with a set idea, but with emotion: joy, hope, longing and anticipation. As the paint spreads freely across the canvas, she discovers the form. The hand leads before the mind, yet a sense of composition is always kept, guided by the principles of the golden ratio.
Music, nature and faith
A central source of inspiration is classical music, especially Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Bizet and Paganini. The sounds are not translated directly into painting; they open an emotional space from which the painting is born.
Miriam is a Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jewish woman, and her faith is woven into everything she creates. The flowers in her paintings come from flowers all over the world and become imaginary blooms full of emotion. For her, they are a testimony to the beauty of the world and to Creation.
Painting that asks not only to be seen, but to be felt.
She has a distinctive artistic DNA, one that cannot be imitated
Acclaimed art curator
Path
Timeline
Born in Moscow to a painter father and an art-critic mother. A childhood in her father’s studio, among painters, paints and conversations about art.
Immigrated to Israel.
Studied with Yossi Rosenstein.
Studied with Rachel Shavit and, in parallel, with Arie Berkovitz.
Solo exhibition, “Miriam Schlossberg – Figures of Bnei Brak”, Bnei Brak.
Solo exhibition, portraits, Bnei Brak.
Solo exhibition, “Landscapes”, Netanya.
Solo exhibition, botanical art, Eshkila Gallery, Jaffa. Opening January 7, 2027.
Alongside each exhibition: master workshops and courses in “Developing a Personal Handwriting in Painting.” Dozens of women have taken part over the years.