Varda Breger


In my paintings and poems (in Hebrew and English), I explore ecology and social life on our vulnerable planet. I use mixed media, transparent, and opaque, mainly on paper.
Streams of spontaneous running paint cages a blurred deer, rudely trodden upon by my shoe or a car tire. An elephant with a broken task emerges from chaos. An abused nude body of a woman, her head hidden with a fig leaf, and a knife and fork beside her to remind us of murder in the family.
The threat of nuclear weapons is always on my mind (MSc. Chemistry, Tel Aviv University & BSc. Israel Technion ). The atrocities and the cruel war in my own country, in Ukraine, and in other places drive me to act for Peace with my humble tools.
Inspired by the return of migrating birds at the revived Hula Lake, I wrote:

FOLLY WARS

Migratory birds,
from north to south and back,
season after season,
millions of miles.
Caressing the planet fraternity of feathers.

No fuel, no flag, no borders, no Gods.
No Folly Wars.

Varda Breger was born in Israel (1937), and lives and works in Tel Aviv. Married to Dov, three children,8 grandchildren,4 grand grandchildren After a career as a chemistry teacher, always painting, she turned completely to art and poetry. She has been a member of the European Artists and the Tel Aviv Artists and Sculptors Associations since 1986. She was elected to AFC- Artists for Conservation, ANF-Artists for Nature, the General Union of Writers and , and the organization of Women Wage Peace.

Education:

Courses at AVIV UNIVERSITY: History of art, English, and Hebrew poetry 1990-2000
PEOPLE UNIVERSITY TEL AVIV- painting 1980-1986
Msc. Chemistry TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY 1965-1970
Bsc.Israel Technion Haifa 1956-1960

"Civilization ignoring the elegies of Mother Earth." I believe that all the planet's inhabitants are part of a chain, linked together, and We Humans must find the way to keep the future of our unique home, in peace between us, and all the life above it, the exceptional planet of life.

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