Igal Vardi

Igal Vardi was born in 1953 in Mishmar HaNegev

Igal Vardi was born on 5 May 1953 in Kibbutz Mishmar HaNegev and began drawing as a child. At age 6 he moved with his family to Argentina, where from age 7 he studied at an art academy with the painter and sculptor Cecilia Markowitz. After 5 years the family returned to Israel and settled in Beersheba, where he studied with Moshe Agmon.

At age 13 he held his first solo exhibition, at Beit HaAm in Beersheba. After his military service he earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy and a master's degree in clinical psychology at Tel Aviv University. He later completed a PhD in philosophy there.

He trained in clinical psychology but focused his work on graphology, and he runs an office in the field. He has worked in handwriting analysis since 1979 and chaired the Israeli Association for Scientific Graphology in 1996. He also analyzed the handwriting of the captive soldier Gilad Shalit for the IDF.

Vardi has shown dozens of exhibitions and written 7 books on graphology, psychology, art, management and philosophy. Among them are "Mimesis", on modern painting, "Sketch", on a method of teaching drawing, and "The Philosophy of Madness", on philosophical counseling. He is married to Ziva and has 4 children.