Crafted by master artists, made just for you.
Bezalel is a small house of oil painters. Choose an original from the wall, or commission a painting made for your own.
The Letter Ilya Voss, 2025. Oil on linen.
On the wall this season
Eight originals from the studio, each one signed, documented and ready to hang.
Meet the craftsmen
Each painter keeps to one discipline and one way of seeing. You always know whose hands made your painting.
Ilya VossPortraitsFaces lit from a single window, in the old Dutch way.4 works View Ilya's wall
Mara LindqvistLandscapesQuiet hours outdoors: dusk, mist, the light after rain.4 works View Mara's wall
Tomás FerreiraStill lifeOrdinary things on a dark ledge, given full attention.4 works View Tomás's wall
The craft
Bezalel is named for the first craftsman in scripture, the one filled with skill "to devise artistic designs". We hold our painters to the old method, and it takes weeks.
Linen, stretched and primed
Belgian linen is pulled over a wooden stretcher by hand and sealed with layers of ground until it is smooth enough to hold a glaze.
The dead layer
The whole composition is laid in with a single earth colour. Light and shadow are settled before a single bright colour is mixed.
Fat over lean, for weeks
Colour goes on in thin layers, each richer in oil than the last, so the painting dries sound and stays bright for generations.
Cured, varnished, signed
A finished painting rests until the paint has cured, then receives its varnish, the painter's signature and a certificate of authenticity.
From the people who live with them
It arrived crated like a museum loan. Two years on, I still stop in the hallway to look at it in the evening light.
Ilya sent three sketches before he touched the canvas. My father's hands are exactly right.
I bought the lemons for the kitchen. Guests always ask who painted it.