Victoria Shalvah Herzberg

VWS Signature Member

Contact Information:

Email: vhrzbrg@gmail.com

Website: https://www.artbyshalvah.com/

Artist’s Bio: Victoria Shalvah Herzberg has lived in Vermont for over 45 years. Since retiring from the research faculty at what was then Dartmouth Medical School in 1990, she has studied original design knitting, pottery, painting, printmaking and sculpture. Her preferred subjects in representational images frequently depict native plants and the human figures. Several of her abstract paintings are shown here.

Shalvah attained signature membership in the Vermont Watercolor Society in 2006 and is currently an artist member of Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction, VT and at AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH. She has published her images, paired with poems written by her husband Don Herzberg, in two books: “Mirror of Seasons” and “Body Language”.

Artist’s Statement: “The unique qualities of watercolor have fascinated me since I first began painting. I was drawn to the way watercolors react with the paper as well as with one another. I was taught for many years by local watercolorists Annette Compton and Ann Semprebon to combine watercolor’s transparency with the white of the paper to enhance the luminous nature of the pigments. In 2005, during Vermont Artists’ Week at Vermont Studio Center, I created a series of paintings incorporating the mineral azurite which precipitates on wet paper, leaving behind unique textures (see “Nascent Muse” displayed here and the Muse watercolors in the abstract section of my website.