Holy Fire: An Artist’s Inner Journey Carole Berman in conversation with Ariel Kahn

A look inside artist Carole Berman’s influences, techniques and works to accompany the launch of her stunning new visual memoir.

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Artist Carole Berman reflects on the drawings, paintings and sculptures shaped by alchemy, Hebrew and Sufi poetry, Jewish texts, Jungian thought and her own dreams – many created during her 1990s years in Jerusalem, overlooking olive trees and the Old City walls. She joins novelist and lecturer Ariel Kahn to discuss her career and her visual memoir, The Holy Fire of Art: Metamorphosis of a Dream.

Carole Berman was born in London and worked for Sotheby’s in London and New York, later studying History of Art at University College, London, then Fine Art at Chelsea and Wimbledon Schools of Art. She chaired the Ben Uri Art Committee between 1992 and 1995.

Dr Ariel Kahn is a novelist and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Middlesex University, where he runs the Creative Writing and Drama programmes. His first novel, Raising Sparks, was shortlisted forThe Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize. He is an Affiliated Artist with the Woolf Interfaith Institute at Cambridge University, and writes regularly on Jewish visual artists from a feminist perspective.

Jewish Book Week

Sunday 8 March 2026
12.30pm (Doors: 12pm)
Limehouse Room, King’s Place, London

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