Education
- Graphic Arts and Illustration, Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa
- History of Art, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- Painting, School of Visual Arts, New York
- Painting, University of Wales (under Mr. M. Griffith), England

Career Bio
Born and raised in Moshav Nahalal, Smadar is third generation of family of farmers. Married and mother of three.
Smadar started her professional career as a graphic artist and book illustrator. She has been painting for nearly 30 years, utilizing a large variety of techniques including oil, watercolor, pastel and drawing. Among Smadar's favorite subjects are portraits, male and female nudes, and landscapes. She paints outdoors villages, fields, forests and rivers in Israel and Europe.
Smadar also specializes in commissioned traditional portraits.

Smadar Painting Center
Founder and director of a private school of professional painting in Tel Aviv, Smadar has taught thousands of art students. Her courses enable people who have never painted before to paint portraits and human figures in a short time.
She lectures on creativity and art, and the way creativity influences the everyday life.
Smadar is active for the sake of improving the quality of Israeli painting. She has published several essays on figurative versus conceptual art, and on the illnesses of post-modern art in Israel.

Solo Exhibitions
1993 - Jezreel's Valley Gallery, Israel; New-York portraits, Jezreel's Valley countrysides and characters in oil, watercolours, Drawings.
1994 - Jezreel's Valley Gallery, Israel; Greek Island landscapes, oil and watercolor.
1996 - Kfar-Tavor Museum, Mt. Tabor, Israel; Israeli landscapes, oil 1997 - Kfar-Saba, Heichal Hatarbut, Israel; Belgium landscapes (Les Ardennes), oil.
1998 - Detroit Jewish Cultural Center, USA; Israeli landscapes, oil and watercolor.
1998 - Ramat-Hagolan Cultural Center Gallery, Israel; Israeli landscapes in watercolor.
2000 - Amalia Arbel Gallery, Tel-Aviv; nudes in oil.
2000 - Beit-Gabriel Gallery, Kinnereth; Kong-Fu worriors; ladies' portraits, oil.
2002 - Smadar Painting Center Gallery, Tel Aviv; Kong-Fu worriors; nude ladies, oil. Exhibiting monumental commissioned family portrait (of 13 persons).
2004 - Fresco Gallery, Tel-Aviv; Portraits and nudes, oil.
2006 - Smadar Painting Center gallery, Ramat-Gan; Israeli landscapes, French countrysides (Les Cevennes), oil and watercolor.