A TOTAL INTERNATIONAL DRUZE ARTIST, AN ACTIVE MULTIDISCIPLINARY CREATOR, FULL OF PASSION,VIRTUOSO AND SELFTAUGHT ARTIST. THE COLORFUL KINGDOM THAT HALABY CREATES SWEEPS THE VIEWER INTO AWHIRLWIND OF COLORS AND TREMENDOUSAND RARE BEAUTY.
Sam Halaby, only 34 years old, was born as the youngest of nine daughters in a traditional Druze family in Daliat El Carmel, Israel. Sam has been drawing since he can remember. It was his mother, Emily, who recognized his extraordinary talent for painting at a young age and believed that he brought this talent with him from previous incarnations. She encouraged him to continue painting even when everyone around him urged him to stop and find a “respectable profession”. From the age of 13 as a child artist who paints
as a “shadow painter” and helps with the household economy, he became an international artist in less than a decade. His colorful works can also be found in luxurious spaces in the USA and Europe. Halaby, a total artist in every sense of the word. The colorful kingdom of Halaby sweeps the visitor into a crazy whirlwind of colors, tremendous and rare beauty, which for a moment can dull the senses.
His works present a new mutation of nature, primordial, optimistic, romantic and dreamy.
It seems that this artist has absolutely no limitations of fitting into one or another fashionable artistic genre.
The ”House Of Color” Is Located In The Picturesque Village Of Daliat El Carmel, Sam’s Hometown, In Which He Still Lives With His Family And In Which He Still Creates. The FourStory House’s Entire Walls, Spanning No Less Than 600 m, Were Painted By Sam In
Hundreds Of Colors That Turned It Into An Architectural Statue, Unseen Anywhere Else In The World And Became A Visitors Center, Art Gallery, Museum ,Which Hundreds Of Thousands Of People From All Over The World Visit.
collaborations of sam halabi
Producing art void of any color boundaries
Curator text from Full Colorful exhibition, October 2022
Sam Halaby is a true and total Artist. A young artist and an active Multidisciplinary creator who creates in his own studio at the heart of Daliat el Carmel, the larger of two Druze villages in the Carmel mountains. A visit to his colorful kingdom sweeps the visitor into a swirl of colors, splendid and rare beauty, that blunts the senses.
He draws them, sculptures them, and weaves them into all his paintings. Flowers have no boundaries in color and imagination, and Sam’s flowers are alive, full of optimism, energy, and optic movement. Sam Halaby was born as an only son in a family of ten children. According to him, his sisters claim that he seized all the aesthetic talent and creativity from all his family, thus being able to create and paint as an autodidact artist and a virtuoso. His paintings of flowers and birds create a mutation of nature that is all new, primal, optimistic, romantic, and dreamy; and it seems that as an artist, Sam does not fall into any artistic genre. The celebration of colors continues even outside his studio: on walls, on fences, on gates, and on doors, even on tree trunks on streets nearby.
“And the oleander branches join to wash sticks of perfume – in days gone by / Daliat el Carmel would open her palms for wanderers to see:
brides’ henna / Salt and light and tattoo / for long has she become the land of love / of poetry, and a merchant of flowers…”
Nazeeh Khair
the late Druze poet Nazeeh Khair, member of the “International artists’ museum” (Which I organize in Israel), and a unique artist
who lived and created right at the heart of this picturesque place, Daliat el Carmel. Khair brings his own interpretation of flowers’ qualities, just like Sam’s paintings, and portrays their power in his poem, ‘Daliat el Carmel’.
According to Sam, this spring of love and inspiration still appears in the shape of his late mother Emily, who passed away young. Halaby recounts the times he used to join his mother on her trips to the market and choose tattings in bright colors, which would be the base for the headscarves she made.
Yoval Dayan has a song called ‘Colors’. In it she sings :
“Draws, hypnotized, does not remove his sight from the art, not from the
brush, these are the lines of his life, in seconds he builds worlds, brings wisdom to colors…”Yoval Dayan
The same can be said about Sam Halaby, poet of colors, who meticulously paints in his spacious studio and creates a new reality, possible reality that deals with joy and beauty, and avoids the burdensome daily affairs. Sam Halaby proves, through his paintings, that there is still an art void of any color boundaries, that there is still an art that beautifies life, brings joy, and contributes to others.
