Working on Mixed Media of Huvy Elisha — Blue Hassidic Dance · Jerusalem Studio
The Beating Heart of Jerusalem
Explore the Collection“Every time I came to her studio, she would ask me — ‘Hey Aaron, did you come to help me making the world happier?’ — and from that moment everything about how I create changed.”Aaron Kraus — on his years with master artist Huvy Elisha, Jerusalem
Working on Mixed Media of Huvy Elisha — Blue Hassidic Dance · Jerusalem Studio
One of a kind. Oils and acrylics on canvas, with quality gold leaves applied by hand. Each work is singular and unrepeatable.
Archival fine art print, hand-finished by the artist with oils and quality gold leaves, personally signed. The original’s soul, at a wider reach.
Museum-grade archival print on canvas, hand-signed by Aaron Kraus. A genuine entry point into the Kraus Gallery collection.
“The painting brings Jerusalem to your wall. The music brings Jerusalem into the room.”
Every work by Aaron Kraus comes with a gift: The Beating Heart of Jerusalem — a 13-track album of original Jewish jazz compositions, recorded in Jerusalem.
Hasidic melody meets artisan jazz. Ancient Breslev tunes, reimagined. The album is included automatically with every purchase and delivered digitally.
“I sometimes dim the lights — not to sit in the dark, but to see with different eyes.”
With only a side spotlight guiding the palette, Aaron closes his eyes almost entirely and descends into the world he is painting: the Jerusalem streets at dusk, the kedusha of the holy sites, the faces of people he has encountered, the joy of celebrations he has attended. Darkness severs the hand from habit, and the canvas becomes memory made visible.
After decades of mixing color by hand — first refined under the exacting eye of Huvy Elisha — the knowledge of proportion and tone lives in the hands themselves. Light returns for final refinements, but the soul of the work is already set.
“To capture the spiritual essence rather than the physical detail — that is the lesson that changed everything.”
The years working alongside Huvy Elisha were a journey into the soul of the subject. There, among the canvases of one of Jerusalem’s great post-impressionists, Aaron learned what would become the heartbeat of his own work: that a painting’s true subject is never the thing itself, but the felt reality behind it.
Whether painting a figure, a landscape, or the ancient stones of Jerusalem — the goal is to portray the intrinsic self of the subject: what lives beneath the surface, what cannot be photographed. The canvas becomes a place where the felt and the seen become one.
Every brushstroke, every layer of texture, every touch of gold — seen up close, the depth reveals itself.
Aaron has painted since the age of six. Trained at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the HIT Holon Institute of Technology, he was shaped most deeply by years in the Jerusalem studio of master post-impressionist Huvy Elisha — whose warmth and vision became inseparable from his own.
His work carries the atmosphere of Jerusalem in every layer: the figures, the streets, the ancient light that arrives differently here than anywhere else. He paints not the city as it looks, but as it feels — its kedusha, its longing, its strange and persistent hope.
His works are represented in the New York area by art curator Shimmy Bleier.
Whether you are collecting for the first time or adding to a collection — Aaron is available personally on WhatsApp. No intermediaries.
All works ship worldwide at no additional charge. Originals and Mixed Media are carefully packaged and fully insured. Delivery takes 7–14 business days. Tracking provided for every shipment.
If a piece arrives damaged or significantly different from what was shown, contact us within 7 days and we will make it right. Original paintings are final sale — but Aaron is always available to answer questions before purchase.
Every original and mixed media piece is personally signed and includes a certificate of authenticity. Created with professional-grade oils, acrylics and top-quality art-grade gold leaves. Keep away from direct sunlight and excess humidity.