שושנה הימן.

At the Dugith Gallry there is a modest but very pleasant exhibition of wood carvings and drawings by Shoshana Heiman. As the gallery is small the artist has wisely shown only small scale works, some about the size of mantelpiece ornaments, but all evidencing a certain sculptural strength and careful workmanship.
The human figure is her main subject, reduced to its cubic shapes with the heat kept as simplified as the rest, so that calm wood is carried throughout the piece. She has mush feeling for her medium, and cleverly uses the natural markings of the wood to emphasize form, as in the “Recumbent Woman” where the circular patterning repeats the circular forms.
Many of the figures are in a seated position with the contrast of arm and leg shapes making an interesting outline. Several of these pieces are attacked to iron frames so that they can be hung on a wall, an innovation that impressive, although it certainly suits her one-winged angles.
Specially notable are the two-figure pieces such as the “mother and Child”. This last, consisting of two separate figures, one half the size of the other, are only a few inches high but so well proportioned and so well balanced in form that they have an almost monumental weight and solidity.
The drawings, thin pen-and-ink line against a modulated background, are mostly heads of a Marie Laurencin type, delicate and charming. By leaving part of the paper white, and using black only for accents such as eyes, has obtained effects of lights and “colour”.