Samar Ghattas

Artist Statement
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Samar Ghattas
Visual Artist

Samar Ghattas is a modern Palestinian visual Artist, she received her master’s degree in fine arts and graphic design from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kiev, Ukraine. Thereafter, she returned to her homeland Bethlehem, Palestine, where she had different experience in different fields of art, then had been a lecturer in fine arts at the University of Bethlehem and other associations.

Her work includes watercolor paintings, mixed media, Ink, Iconography, Ceramic, and Photoshop Digital Media. Her artwork was displayed in various exhibitions through Palestine, Europe, India and the U.S.A. Samar’s Art is very unique in many aspects being one of a few Palestinian woman artists; she is able to merge the Palestinian culture and its social issues through her personal experience and point of view.

Samar currently lives and works in her homeland and conveys real life in Palestine. Her main goal is to reflect the Palestinian life and its various dimensions. Samar hopes to continue creating and exhibiting her work in different venues through the Palestinian areas and in the whole world.