Conversations with Ayelet Galor

Today we’d like to introduce you to Ayelet Galor.

Hi Ayelet , we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
When I was younger, I studied art rehabilitation and later went on to study Visual Communication in Switzerland. Over the years, my path led me into the world of fashion, where I worked as a fashion buyer.

I’ve always been deeply drawn to the spiritual, while also having a strong connection to the physical world—to materials, textures, and the feeling of creating with my hands. I think my work exists somewhere between these two worlds.

At the end of the day, I need to feel a material in my hands and create from it. At one point, it was fabric; today, it is clay. I’m always curious to see where this instinct will take me next and how I will continue to evolve.

Returning to clay felt, in many ways, like returning to myself. It is the material that gives me the greatest sense of freedom. When I work with my hands, I’m able to listen to my heart on a much deeper level, and there is something incredibly healing about the process. The passion feels endless, and for me, that is where creation begins.

When I enter the studio, it feels as though the material and I become one. I’m always searching for a kind of perfection within myself, while at the same time being deeply fascinated by imperfection—the idea that something can be imperfect and still be completely whole. I think that tension between perfection and imperfection is very present in my work.

Today, I work with a gallery in Tel Aviv that collaborates with architects and interior designers. In New York, I create from a studio in Brooklyn. I originally came to New York with my husband for a few years because of his work, and it unexpectedly became another chapter in my own creative journey. Through Instagram, people discover my work and come to visit me at the studio. I love meeting them personally, sharing my world with them, and having that direct connection with the people who choose to live with my pieces.

I also spend my summers in Paros, Greece, where I create, and next summer I’m opening my own shop there—a place where people will be able to come, experience my work, and take a piece of it home with them.

I wake up every morning full of curiosity and passion. I don’t know exactly where my creativity will take me next, and I think that is part of what keeps me inspired. At the end of every day, I remember to be grateful.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Of course, there have been challenges along the way. I think one of the biggest has been learning to trust my own path, especially because it hasn’t been a straight or conventional one. I moved between different worlds — art, fashion, different countries, and eventually back to creating with my hands.

Starting again and finding my place as an artist required courage. There are always moments of doubt, especially when you create something so personal and then put it out into the world. I’ve also had to rebuild my creative space and community in different places — Tel Aviv, New York, and Paros — and each transition brings both uncertainty and opportunity.

But I actually like when there is a challenge. For me, difficulty is often a sign that there is somewhere further to go — another place to grow, develop, discover, and perhaps reach something deeper within myself. I’ve learned not to be afraid of those moments, but to become curious about what they are trying to show me.

I’ve also learned that sometimes growth comes from knowing when to stop. There are days when the best thing I can do is close the studio, step away from the work, and go into nature. Maybe with age and experience, I’m finally able to do that without anxiety — to give myself space, to trust the pause, and to know that the creativity will still be there when I return.

Maybe my biggest challenge is also one of my greatest strengths: I’m always searching, always curious, and I have very high expectations of myself and my work. But over time, I’ve learned that growth also comes from accepting imperfection — not only in the clay, but in myself.

Today, I try to meet challenges with curiosity rather than fear. I believe that every stage, even the difficult ones, has the potential to take me somewhere I haven’t been before.

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
For me, art is about feeling something. And if something I create manages to make someone else feel something too, that is the greatest achievement for me.

I also genuinely love selling my work. There is something very meaningful to me in that exchange—there is both the material and the spirit. I feel that when one of my pieces leaves me and finds a new home, a little part of me travels with it. I like to believe that my work brings a sense of freedom, spirit, and even a little blessing into the space it enters. That feeling has always been part of who I am. Ever since I was a child, I think there has been a little bit of a magician in me.

What perhaps sets me apart is that I don’t believe in rules when it comes to creating. With clay, that can sometimes be a little more challenging, because the material has its own limitations—but I still refuse to let rules define what I can do with it. In my creative world, there is freedom. Life itself has enough rules.

I love treating the surface of clay almost like a canvas, combining glazes in an intuitive, abstract way, and sometimes bringing acrylic paint into the work as well. I love experimenting, mixing techniques, and letting each piece become what it wants to become.

Ultimately, I want my work to carry emotion, freedom, and a little bit of magic. If someone looks at one of my pieces and feels something—even for a moment—that is what I am most proud of.

How do you think about luck?
When I am aligned with my purpose, I feel that everything happens for me, not just to me. Even something that may seem like bad luck at the time can eventually reveal itself as an important part of the journey.

For me, the essence of my purpose is to live within my triangle, with passion at its peak. When I act from passion, I experience freedom, and from freedom comes creation.

There is something beautiful in the Hebrew language: the word for creation, “Yetzira” (יצירה), shares its root with “Yetzer” (יצר) — instinct, drive, the primal force within us. I see that inner drive as the raw energy of life. When we allow it to express itself authentically, it becomes creation.

And ultimately, discovering the essence of your purpose is, for me, the truest form of happiness. It is the moment when you stop searching for happiness outside yourself and begin creating from who you truly are.

So perhaps what we call “luck” is actually the moment when purpose, passion, freedom, creation, and opportunity come together.

Pricing:

• As an Israeli Jewish woman, I am often asked what I believe in, and who I believe in. So I want to put it simply here: I believe in only one thing — humanity.

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