The Twelve Healers
Karen Dolev
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
- 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


