Yudi Marton spent over three decades as a senior software engineer in microelectronics at Intel Israel — a career that brought professional prestige, global travel, and comfort, but never matched the pull he felt toward art. In 2007, at the age of 53, he left the corporate world to devote himself fully to painting, sculpture, and writing.

Since then, his work has been shown in more than 35 group exhibitions worldwide, alongside 15 solo exhibitions in Tel Aviv and Haifa spanning computer art, drawings, prints, and acrylics. For the past decade, Marton has served as Director of the Israel Illustrators Association, where he has curated or initiated ten exhibitions.

His artistic and literary voice is surrealist, intuitive, and unbound — occasionally venturing into the grotesque. He believes a story, like an image, should remain open to the reader’s own interpretation rather than illustrate a single fixed idea.

Annie’s Time, written in 2014, grew from that same instinct: rather than working from a plan, Marton discovered the story as it unfolded, letting the plot breathe and shift chapter by chapter. Each chapter opens with a small black-and-white drawing, offering a quiet glimpse of what is to come.

Yudi Marton lives and works in Haifa, Israel.