Salomon Kadoche at one of his exhibitions.                                                                         

Salomon Kadoche
Born in Casablanca, Morocco, Salomon has dedicated his life to perfecting his highly emotional work. He earned a degree from Hunter College and studied at Art Students League and the School of Visual Arts in New York. Mr. Kadoche has participated in many solo and group exhibitions throughout his distinguished career, including shows most recently at the PSA Hermitage Foundation Museum in Norfolk, VA; Pastel Society of America in New York, NY; Macculoch Hall Historical Museum in Morristown, NJ; Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie and Barron Arts Center in Woodbridge, NJ. He has also won several prestigious awards including the NJ Pastel Society of America Award and The Dianne B. Bernard Award in Pastel from The Art Sprit Foundation. He currently resides in Monroe Township, New Jersey. He has won many prestigious awards for a lifetime devotion to the arts. His subjects ranging from floral and fruit still-lifes and marine scenes to figurative works in oil. His still-lifes are breathtakingly rendered, his landscapes explore undiscovered places, and his portraits “almost talk back.”

                 National Show 2006

 I have to introduce myself as a person that looks toward the future rationally, but emotionally I respond to the past. I would have liked a world with a slower pace. Tele-Communication, fast speed travel, anything technology has created and improved during my lifetime never ceases to amaze me. It is a world of wonder--not to forget the comfort I derive from all this progress. In spite of all the complexities of our "modern world" and its benefits, I cannot help but look back in time when things were simpler, slower, and quieter.
What I am trying to say simply is that I am a "romantic", a pantheist, if you will, a person that clings to a simple world with time to meditate and indulge in daydreaming and being closer to and with nature. This explains perhaps why I paint. I love anything that I paint, be it an orange, a person or a landscape. I always find a new challenge in a subject even when I paint the same thing many times. There is always a different way to look at a subject. My intention in painting is to capture the light conditions that prevail at the time. Sometimes I go for the atmospheric qualities and other times I interpret what I see through color. I do not have a preset formula. I always paint to solve certain problems; it could be a mood that I am looking for, exciting color, atmospheric qualities, and temperature, such as a cool or warm day. To sum up every picture is a new experience as every day has its particularities.
About still life-my work deals with atmosphere and the drama of light and dark (Chiaroscuro). The old Masters have always been my inspiration particularly the Dutch. Often I glaze several coats of transparent rich dark tones for the background and contrast that with impastos on objects in center stage. The focal point always gets bright and thick paint, however the most important element in my work has to always be the feeling of atmosphere around the objects I paint. Moreover some mystery is conveyed by softening edges and progressively have the forms emerge gradually from the dark background up to a crescendo of light in the focal area.   

Salomon Kadoche with his work,  "Playing Hooky"