Godi Dadon

Gadi was born to an ulra religious Moroccan family in Bnei Brak, Israel. The artist's parents were from Morocco. His mother married at 13 years old to a man who worked with his father. The two men hand decorated saddle blankets. Gadi's father and grandfather traveled from village to village in the Atlas Mountains selling the blankets.

In kindergarden Gadi remembers his father being very impressed by a picture he drew and his father's reaction is where Gadi's inspiration for drawing comes from. The aspiring artist drew pictures of people, ghosts, and giant spiders. He remembers drawing scary pictures which depicted things he learned about the holocaust.

In Search Of The Artist's Way

At age 14 Gadi was accepted into an art school in Tel Aviv called Vitzo Tsarfat (France). Unable to attend do to financial hardship in the family, Gadi became discontented in his life and left the ultra religious world to explore himself and life's options.

In the ‘90's Gadi traveled around the world and suported himself by painting sidewalk murals in Tel Aviv, South Africa, and Germany.

Gadi returned to Israel in 1999. After a long inner struggle the artist found his truth in Judaism and returned to a religious life.