Miri Lavee is an Israeli artist. She lives and works in the beautiful village Karmei-Yosef, where she paints and also teaches.
She is a graduate of Midrasha Institution of fine Arts, in Ramat Hasharon.
Her works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions.
After her marriage Miri was a resident of kibbutz Tzora for 25 years and with her husband raised there their 4 children.
The years of kibbutz' life, its closeness to nature and the strong Israeli light, are the inspiration of a group of floral oil paintings on canvas depicting a large single flower used as a metaphor of light and hope.
In her paintings Miri concentrates on seeing and conveying the effects of color and light not only on flowers, but on all forms.
The vivid warm colors of fabrics and colorful people are the inspiration of many of her paintings. She combines this exciting atmosphere with ethnic elements of the Middle East that she is familiar with in Israel.
Miri places her figures in an imaginary space, while the movements of the figures (women) are realistic.
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Miri is the daughter of holocaust survivors. She expresses her deepest feelings about it in drawings and black and yellow oil Holocaust paintings which she calls "My Inheritance".
At her home studio Miri teaches her students how to develop their art and their sensitivity for their surroundings, and how to depict reality from a subjective point of view.
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