# Bezalel

> Bezalel is a small house of oil painters. Visitors choose an original oil painting from the gallery, or commission a painting (a portrait, people together, a beloved animal, a place, or a still life) made for their own walls. Prices are in Canadian dollars (CAD).

Important: this site is a preview. The painters, artworks, prices and reviews it shows are sample content, and the artwork images are stand-ins for photographs of real works. Do not quote them as real sales, real people or real customer reviews.

## Pages

- [Home](https://bezalel.astroship.org/): the house, featured works, the craft and how a commission works.
- [Gallery](https://bezalel.astroship.org/gallery): every original, filterable by category and painter.
- [The craftsmen](https://bezalel.astroship.org/painters): the painters and their disciplines.
- [Commission a painting](https://bezalel.astroship.org/commission): choose a size, subject, painter and frame. A 30% deposit at checkout reserves the painter, who replies within two working days with a sketch and the final price.

## Painters

- [Ilya Voss](https://bezalel.astroship.org/painters/ilya-voss): Portraits. Faces lit from a single window, in the old Dutch way.
- [Mara Lindqvist](https://bezalel.astroship.org/painters/mara-lindqvist): Landscapes. Quiet hours outdoors: dusk, mist, the light after rain.
- [Tomás Ferreira](https://bezalel.astroship.org/painters/tomas-ferreira): Still life. Ordinary things on a dark ledge, given full attention.

## Works

- [The Letter](https://bezalel.astroship.org/works/the-letter): Ilya Voss, 2025, oil on linen, 60 × 80 cm, 120 CAD.
- [The Fisherman](https://bezalel.astroship.org/works/the-fisherman): Ilya Voss, 2024, oil on linen, 55 × 100 cm, 8,400 CAD.
- [Ochre Shawl](https://bezalel.astroship.org/works/ochre-shawl): Ilya Voss, 2025, oil on canvas, 50 × 75 cm, 5,600 CAD.
- [Self-portrait with Palette](https://bezalel.astroship.org/works/self-portrait-with-palette): Ilya Voss, 2023, oil on linen, 60 × 80 cm, sold.
- [Evening over the Marsh](https://bezalel.astroship.org/works/evening-over-the-marsh): Mara Lindqvist, 2025, oil on linen, 120 × 67 cm, 9,200 CAD.
- [Birches after Rain](https://bezalel.astroship.org/works/birches-after-rain): Mara Lindqvist, 2024, oil on canvas, 60 × 80 cm, 5,400 CAD.
- [Harbour at First Light](https://bezalel.astroship.org/works/harbour-at-first-light): Mara Lindqvist, 2025, oil on linen, 100 × 56 cm, 7,600 CAD.
- [August Wheat](https://bezalel.astroship.org/works/august-wheat): Mara Lindqvist, 2024, oil on canvas, 110 × 62 cm, sold.
- [Lemons and Pewter](https://bezalel.astroship.org/works/lemons-and-pewter): Tomás Ferreira, 2025, oil on panel, 70 × 39 cm, 4,800 CAD.
- [Peonies in a Dark Vase](https://bezalel.astroship.org/works/peonies-in-a-dark-vase): Tomás Ferreira, 2025, oil on linen, 50 × 74 cm, 5,200 CAD.
- [Bread, Knife and Wine](https://bezalel.astroship.org/works/bread-knife-and-wine): Tomás Ferreira, 2024, oil on panel, 60 × 45 cm, 4,400 CAD.
- [Quince and Cabbage](https://bezalel.astroship.org/works/quince-and-cabbage): Tomás Ferreira, 2023, oil on canvas, 50 × 74 cm, 4,600 CAD.

## How it is made

Paintings are made in the traditional layered method: linen stretched and primed, a monochrome "dead layer", colour built up fat over lean over weeks, then cured, varnished and signed. Every original ships with a signed certificate of authenticity, crated and insured.