The artist

Shmuel Hartaf

Shmuel Hartaf paints in southern Israel. Oil, acrylic, and mixed media: harbours, machines, cities, portraits, and large abstract canvases.

Shmuel Hartaf, in profile, working a painting with a palette knife
At work, southern Israel

Artist statement

Placeholder. These lines stand in until the artist’s own words are added.

The words for this statement are still to come from the artist.

Until then, only what the paintings already show: they are made in a studio in southern Israel, in oil, acrylic, and mixed media. Harbours, machines, cities, portraits, and large abstract canvases.

A palette knife held above a painting in progress
Bright and breezy, southern Israel

The paintings are listed with their medium and size. For a work, or a question, write to the studio.

Shmuel Hartaf standing beside a canvas, palette knife in hand
Oil and canvas, southern Israel

Oil and canvas, in the open air of the studio in southern Israel.

Shmuel Hartaf moving a palette knife across a painting
In motion, southern Israel

The same studio, a moment later.

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