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Ygartua bought a replica of an old


           styled wooden printing  press in
          Jerusalem in 1979 and shipped  to


           Canada - a couple of years later sold
           it even though it is a fascinating                            Our daughter Tala Nicole was born in


           medium to work with.                                          Cannes and when she was four months old
                                                                         encouraged by an Ygartua patron we decided,


                                                                         to go and live in Jerusalem for Paul to paint
                                                                         and experience the ancient world, Jerusalem,


                                                                         the holiest city in Judaism and the ancestral
                                                                         and spiritual homeland of the Jewish people


                                                                         since the 10th century BC. During classical
                                                                         antiquity Jerusalem was considered the


                                                                         center of the world.




                                                                        We  lived in  the Knesset  area just  a  few
                                                                         minutes’ drive from the Old City where


                                                                         we visited a couple of times per week over
                                                                         a six month period.  During our six month


                                                                         sojourn in Jerusalem, Paul prepared for an
                                                                         exhibition on The Old City that we took


                                                                         back to Canada for a Special Exhibition in
                                                                        1980 at the Bayshore Inn International Suite


                                                                         in Vancouver.
                                                                         Here are a few examples of Paul’s lino-cuts.








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