Heaven’s Gate by Haim Sherrf

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Haim Sherrf is an Israeli-Canadian artist, born in Beersheva, Israel. After serving 3 and a half years in the Israeli Army intelligence and air force unit, Sherrf began travelling through Europe. In Greece, he met Israeli artist Avigdor Stimatsky, one of the founders of the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem, and each produced watercolours from the Island of Crete as a result of this trip. Sherrf’s travels also took him to Vienna, where he designed stages for cabaret shows, and to Amsterdam and other European cities. In Spain, he visited a reclusive Salvador Dali at his hideaway. Leaning on his gold-topped cane, moustache flying in opposite directions, the master advised, “Live by your art…the struggle will bring the best out of you.”