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Yaron
Livay and Flying Sugar
Press
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An eighth-generation Israeli born in Tel-Aviv, Yaron's first loves were art and writing. While serving in the navy he produced a shipboard newspaper. Later he wrote regularly in the Israeli press and had his own column, illustrated with cartoons, in a major daily newspaper. His cartoon book, Around Africa, about a sea voyage from Haifa to Eilat was published and, aged 24, Yaron was awarded first prize in a national short story competition. However, with growing family responsibilities, he felt that he needed a more secure career. He built a very successful accountancy business, always knowing that a day would come when he could leave it all behind and devote himself to his real calling. That day finally arrived in 1990 when a British artist came to him for financial advice. "I knew how unlikely it was to be paid by an artist," says Yaron, "So I suggested that he could repay me with an introduction to someone in London who would put me back on the art path." The path led to the door of Natalie d'Arbeloff, painter, book artist, printmaker and teacher. Natalie felt that printmaking was ideally suited to Yaron's style and she offered to teach him etching so that he could create a limited edition book based on a suite of his drawings. This project became The Lecture, the first of Yaron's artist's books and the gateway to recognition of his highly original talent. Within a few months of Yaron's introduction into the world of the livre d'artiste, his work was acquired by the National Library of the Victoria & Albert Museum and, gradually, by many other distinguished private and public collections internationally (see Public Collections). Yaron's dream became a reality and he has never looked back. 
In 1991 Yaron founded Flying Sugar
Press (the name arose from his misnomer of the etching technique
known as sugar lift) to produce finely crafted artists' books in limited,
hand-printed editions illustrated with his etchings, linocuts, woodcuts
or monoprints. As well as books, Yaron produces editions of prints, a
small selection of which is shown on the following pages.
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