My fondest memories of Canada usually involve a dock, a black lake murmuring in the dark, and a big night sky soaked in bright white stars.

 I found myself in my studio, the world outside silent and void of movement and human sound

"Utopia on the River Eden" was started two weeks before all of Israel was put into “Lockdown” in reaction to the Covid 19 virus.  I found myself in my studio, the world outside silent and void of movement and human sound, other than those of my lovely wife.  Armed with my brushes, paints and canvas I went to work on my greatest project until now.  I had begun to paint a utopian vision of the perfect city.  A seminal work in my “Hotel Utopia” series.

Before I begin describing the work, it must be noted, that I fully understand and am aware that we, as humans, do not all share the same ideas of both a personal and a collective utopia.  For one to experience utopia it is going to have to be both in the micro and macro definitions of the sublime.

For the last two years I have been working on a series of works entitled "Hotel Utopia". This theme came to mind a few years ago after I suffered a heart attack and died. On my return to this reality, I began to wonder 'what is all this about'? What are we looking for? If it is happiness and meaning then where and how do we find it? I began thinking about 'utopia' . What does it mean, is it possible and is it what we really actually want? The idea of a pastoral existence, afternoons spent next to a cool…

The Louvre in Paris is home to a magnificent collection of art and on my occasional visits I always find myself drawn to the "Death of Marat" by the French painter Jacques Louis David.

I remember back in 1975 entering an almost empty Sistine Chapel, those were the days before low cost flights and tourism on mass. I lay on the floor and peered up at a ceiling covered in images of God, Adam, and assorted biblical supporting actors.

A painter of cities since the age of nine, Howard Fox combines Jewish art with a deep fascination with the realistic art tradition.

In a painting titled Ten Sefirot, Candian-Israeli painter Howard Fox painted winged angels hovering in a fantastic landscape, with structures caped with blue and gold domes and mountains. They carry gold hoops, held, for that brief moment, as the kabbalistic drawing of the Ten Sefirot. The qualities of the divine function in relation to one another and, according to mystical Jewish thought, are its nature and the hidden reality beneath the flesh of the world. It is a highly unusual depiction of the mystical concept and Fox is very much aware of it.

I’m Howard Fox, a modern, figurative, and contemporary artist in Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Israel.

I look forward to sharing my story. I hope that you will enjoy getting to know me better.

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