Smadar Katz

Smadar started her professional career as a graphic designer and book illustrator. She has been painting for over 30 years, utilizing a large variety of techniques including oil, watercolor, pastel and drawing.

Her favourite subjects are portraits and countrysides. She enjoys painting live models and painting en plain air.

Smadar has been giving numerous demonstrations of Alla Prima model painting, an expertise of hers, to artists and students. She also specializes in commissioned traditional portraits.

Born and raised in the village of Nahalal in Northern Israel, Smadar is Fourth generation to a family of farmers. She is married and has three grownup children.

A leader amongst the professional figurative painters in Israel, Smadar is highly proactive in promoting the improvement of professional painting quality in Israel. She lectures regularly on creativity and art, and the way creativity affects everyday life.

Smadar published several essays on figurative versus conceptual art. As of 2007 Smadar has been leading an online forum – The Painters’ Forum – in which she advises painters on painting techniques and answers art ethics questions.

2003-2003: Painting, University of Wales (under Mr. M. Griffith).
1992-1992: Painting, School of Visual Arts, New York (among others, under Mr. Irwin Greenberg).
1971-1973: History of Art, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
1970-1971: Graphic Arts and Illustration, Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa.

2013 – International group exhibition of Contemporary Erotic Art – Place Suisse des Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2010 – Smadar Painting Center Gallery, Ramat- Gan; “Sky and Land and Road”, Countryside & nature, oil and watercolor.
2006 – Smadar Painting Center gallery, Ramat-Gan; Israeli landscapes, French countrysides (Les Cevennes), oil and watercolor.
2004 – Fresco Gallery, Tel-Aviv; “figure & Erotica”, Portraits and figures, oil.
2002 – Exhibiting monumental commissioned family portrait (of 13 persons), the stages of work.
2002 – Smadar Painting Center Gallery, Tel Aviv; Kung-Fu worriors; Candle-Light ladies, oil.
2000 – Beit-Gabriel Gallery, Kinnereth; Kung-Fu worriors; ladies’ portraits, oil.
2000 – Amalia Arbel Gallery, Tel-Aviv; portraits & figures in oil and watercolor.
1999 – Music & Dance Center, Emek Yizreel – figures and dancers, watercolor, pastel, drawing.
1998 – Ramat-Hagolan Cultural Center Gallery, Israel; Israeli landscapes in watercolor.
1998 – Detroit Jewish Cultural Center, USA; Israeli landscapes, oil and watercolor.
1997 – Kfar-Saba, Heichal Hatarbut, Israel; Belgium landscapes (Les Ardennes), Israeli Portraits, oil.
1996 – Kfar-Tavor Museum, Mt. Tabor, Israel; Israeli landscapes, oil.
1994 – Je...