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Asher - "After my husband died, when Eric called and asked what he could do for me, I asked him to paint a portrait of my husband. The painting arrived as I was on my way to teach a class and decided not to take the time to open it until the evening. By nighttime, I was excitedly removing its packing materials and steeling myself for what I anticipated would be disappointment – no one saw him the way you did, I warned myself, no one’s version of him would match your own. And then I eased it out of its plastic wrapping and held in my hands my husband. It was the first time since his death that I felt joy. This stapled canvas held his face, it recreated the slight brown spot on his forehead, the crag of his cheek, the unruly white eyebrows, the intense look of his eyes. I held this rectangular version of him in my hands again, and shrieked “You’re home.” This was no mere painting to me; it was a piece of him." (Elizabeth Meyer)
Avraham - An old Sejera farmer.
Beni - Mayor of lower Galilee, a portrait capturing a man who knew whom to call and achieved much for the lower Galilee.
Bernice Rubens
Claire
Dad
Dana
D-Mitoush
Farming Talk
Guedalia
Italian card game - On a very hot summer day, in the little Tuscan village of Monte Castello di Vibio.
Gargonza - Sunset on the interesting and beautiful Castello di Gargonza, Italy, inspired this multi-level "sunsets".
Le café français - It had never been open in living memory. It now is refurbished, renovated and... no more.
Le meunier - The water mill of many family holidays with the miller resting with his Pernod (in fact my brother in law, Musa Moris Farhi).
Micha
Moth - Alzheimer portrait of Eric's mother expressing the fear and anguish of this illness.
Musa - I have been an ardent admirer of Eric Gould’s paintings for many years. I believe him to be, for want of a better phrase, a soul-painter. He has that unique gift of penetrating into the inner dimensions of his subject. (Moris Farhi, MBE)
Musa at Parrot
Musa writing
Nina at porch - Nina at the mill's porch at dawn.
Oshrat - Daughter of a friend.
Phil - Sketch of younger brother, once well known as actor and script writer, but who now shares Eric's love for quiet village life.
Recca - Our oldest daughter at Brousse le Chateau, a picturesque medieval French little town close to our holiday mill.
Requista's fat man
Requista's market - A collection of some of my favoured characters met over several visits to this little town, capital of the European sheep industry.
Sami Michael - One of Israel's foremost writer and a good friend of ours.
Sarah in the garden - Her village, Kfar Kama, is one of two Circassian villages in Israel. They are Moslem community, loyal to the state and whose men serve in the army. They have a distinctive culture and a language of their own. The Ottomans brought them as refugees of the Russian Empire.
Sarah's old house - Our friend from a neighboring circassian village.
Self Portrait 2006 - A portrait done with two mirrors, one large for capturing the body and one small for the face. From afar Eric looks quite severe, but from close up it shows a softer person.
Self portrait ancient
Self portrait Lebanese war - Panted during the Hizbollah war with katyushas landing all around the house (the motor section of a scud missile landed less than 100m away).
Shlomit - A fortuitous encounter at a cinema led me to paint the portrait of this regal Israeli beauty.
Tani - Our youngest son before his military service.
Uri - We commissioned Eric to paint the portrait of our late beloved friend Uri. We were impressed by his thorough research to get to know Uri from photos, talking to people who knew him and stories about him. When we first saw Uri's portrait we were dumbfounded, Eric had captured exactly the person Uri was, without actually knowing him. The look in his eyes, his half smile, it was as if Uri came alive! The portrait is a wonderful way to remember our Uri. (Mrs. Shilo)
Uri, grand-father - Uri, a much loved and regretted father and grand-father. Dear Eric, I'd like to thank you for all the effort you've put into picturing my dear father. It's unusual to meet an artist like you, who studies photos and connects with the person and paints him from his own mind. The picture of my father – Uri Shiloh (may he rest in peace) is definitely close to reality. Thank you very much. (Shmuel Shiloh)
Victor Hugo - This has been presented to the Mairie du 6em, Lyon, France, at the opening of Eric's exhibition in their salons in 2006.
Weenou - Our youngest daughter.
Weenou and Tani on the hill - Eric's two youngest children looking at blackberries on the hill behind the house.
Weenou's camp fire
Yoel - Farmer of the lower Galilee, foremost fighter for the rights and advancement of farmers.

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