Samar Ghattas is a modern Palestinian visual Artist. She received her Master 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 has had different experiences in different fields of art and has been a lecturer in fine arts at the University of Bethlehem.
Her work includes water color paintings, mixed media, ink, iconography, ceramics and Photoshop Digital Media.
Her art work has been displayed in various exhibitions through Palestine, Europe and the U.S. She has participated in many different art workshops.
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.
Her art focuses on the use of water color in portraying her ideas and subjects, which leans to the figurative art. Samar currently lives and works in her homeland and convoys real life in Palestine.
Her main goal is to reflect the Palestinian life and its various dimensions.
Samar hopes to continue showing her work in different venues through the Palestinian areas and in the whole world.