The Twelve Healers
2025
"The Twelve Healers" is an artist's book created alongside a solo exhibition of the same name at the Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv. It engages with the book 'Twelve Healers and Other Remedies' by Dr. Edward Bach, first published in London in 1933, which introduced the holistic healing method known as "Bach Flower Remedies".
The book presents a series of soft pastel drawings, each accompanied by descriptions of the associated plants and emotional states. In its structure and language it echoes a botanical field guide, but offers a different kind of navigation — through flowers, color transitions, and emotional frequencies. Alongside the plant descriptions, the book features texts by the exhibition curator Ravit Harari, ethnobotanist Prof. Zohara Yaniv-Bachrach, and curator Ran Kasmy Ilan. The book serves as a key to reading the exhibition, but also exists as an independent object that invites attentive observation and inward reflection.
- Design: Field Day Studio: Zohar Koren, Idan Am-Shalem
- Texts: Dr. Edward Bach, Ravit Harari, Prof. Zohara Yaniv-Bachrach, Ran Kasmy Ilan
- Translation: Ella Novak
- Language editing: Yoni Raz Portugali
- Copies: 500
- Pages: 80
- Type of binding: Soft cover, Linen thread binding
- Languages: English
- Dimensions (cm): 16.5x10.5
- Printing: A.R. Printing Ltd.
- Binding: A.R. Printing Ltd.
- Type of printing: Process
- Publication: Self-published
- Place of publication: Tel Aviv, Israel
- Supported by: Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts, Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts Tel Aviv, Dana Art Gallery Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, MUZA Eretz Israel Museum Tel Aviv
- Book photography: Ben Alon
- ISBN: 9789655972900
Karen Dolev (b. 1994, Jerusalem) is a visual artist living and working in Tel Aviv–Jaffa. Dolev holds a BFA and an MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (BFA, Jerusalem, 2017; MFA, Tel Aviv, 2023), and participated in a student exchange program at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (2016–2017). In 2024–2025, she took part in the Alma–Matal Fellowship Program at Beit Alma for Hebrew Culture.
Her practice focuses on drawing and material-based processes, spanning painting, artist books, and research-based work. She has presented solo and two-person exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions at museums and galleries, including Eretz Israel Museum, Bat Yam Museum of Art, Beit Liebling, Naga Gallery, Beit Binyamini Gallery, and the Fresh Paint Art Fair. Her works are included in public and private collections, among them the Tel Aviv Museum of Art collection.
Dolev is the recipient of several awards and grants, including support from the Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts and Mifal HaPais. In 2026, she is scheduled to participate in an artist residency program in Cologne, Germany. Between 2021 and 2024, she was a co-founder and co-curator of Halal Bastudio, an independent artist-run space in Tel Aviv.
