Bill Meyer’s Ir Atika, Yerushalayim (1992) is a lyrical etching that captures the ancient heart of Jerusalem through an intimate, modern lens. Printed in warm red-orange ink, its sketch-like lines flicker with movement and immediacy, as though the city has been caught mid-breath. Buildings, arches, pathways and towers rise like memories drawn from stone — a place both deeply rooted and perpetually alive through architecture, energy and myth.

Born in Australia in 1942, Meyer studied art history and languages at the University of Melbourne before training at the National Gallery Art School and later the Royal College of Art, London. His years as a resident artist at the Mishkenot Sha’ananim studios in Jerusalem during the 1980s and ’90s directly inform the work’s emotional and spiritual sensitivity. These influences meet on the plate: loose, animated marks alive with wonder and sacred geography, held within a confident, assured composition.

More than a cityscape, Ir Atika, Yerushalayim distils the pulse of an ancient city seen through a singular artistic voice. It offers a rare convergence of personal experience and cultural resonance — a work that brings history, spirituality and immediacy into compelling alignment.

Bill MEYER (1942 - )
'Ir Atika, Yerushalayim (Old City)' 1992
etching, printed in red/orange ink, from one zinc plate
Edition of 40
Image Size: 15 x 15 cm
Dimensions: 34 x 25 cm
Signed: Signed, titled and editioned in bottom margin.
Comes with Letter of Provenance
plate made in Israel, printed in AustraliaSee related linkhttps://printsandprintmaking.gov.au/impressions/44424/
Condition: EXCELLENT
(c) The Artist or Assignee