Biography

FROM FASHION DESIGN TO CONTEMPORARY ART               

 Born in Israel 1953, Daphna Fischler grew up in a kibbutz. She spent her adolescent years there before moving to Jerusalem at age 20 where she engaged in private drawing and painting lessons from some of the more established painters of that time.
“I always liked “application” – learning straight from the person who is doing the work himself. Like they did in the old schools. It’s the techniques I was interested in and the personal experience and viewpoint.”

As she progressed in her studies, she found herself attracted more and more to the area of Design.

In 1980 she moved to Tel Aviv and studied fashion design at the Vogue school, one of the most renowned schools in the country.

Since then Daphna worked as a fashion designer for 13 years in some of the leading fashion companies in Israel, firms the likes of MIF, JUMP, BARBUR, and PIER GALIO. It was during this period that she brought forth her own company and line under the label “Daphna Nevet,” (her maiden name).

As a fashion designer she got also involved in fabric design and seasonal trends and worked as consultant for one of the biggest textile manufacturers in Israel.

“My passion for creation with colors and forms is almost obsessive. It’s just a never ending exciting game that keeps burning in my blood.”

In 1995 Daphna moved with her husband Ido Fischler, (a real estate developer and businessman,) to Clearwater, Florida.

Once there it was only natural that the experience of having become intimately involved in interior design at some of her husband’s many real estate projects intertwined with her orientation along the disciplines of fashion and fabric design. And with this, a new line of art was born.

“I found a new way to express myself. It’s something that I was looking to do for a long time. One day I looked at the pavement that I was walking on and was thinking, wow! this is such a beautiful piece of texture. So I took a picture of it. From this moment it was no longer a pavement. It became a whole big canvas which filled me with inspiration and I started to work on it with some digital tools and brushes. What happened was the significance of the object changed completely and got a whole new meaning.”

“In the past I used to do some paintings with oil and acrylic colors only this time I became really excited from the whole new media that was opening up for me. I just enjoyed the results , the effect of the digital media gives it some unique and contemporary look which goes very well with the current trends of contemporary design.”