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CONTEMPORARY ART
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VARDA KALMAR
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![Caracal fighter, watercolor and ink, 17X25, 2023](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/84cab0_2fbeb209a2854bc48dc1aa840f94bc74~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_900,h_643,al_c,q_85,enc_auto/84cab0_2fbeb209a2854bc48dc1aa840f94bc74~mv2.jpg)
![Sergeant Shalev Dagan, watercolor and ink. 27X39, 2023](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/84cab0_8bf36e13a36e4adf9bf1ae009d752c87~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_629,h_900,al_c,q_85,enc_auto/84cab0_8bf36e13a36e4adf9bf1ae009d752c87~mv2.jpg)
![Waiting for his return, waiting for the hostages to return back home. Watercolor and ink, #×30 cm. M](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/84cab0_a3f74bfae8bf40f0b56e683a953ee927~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_800,h_1000,al_c,q_85,enc_auto/84cab0_a3f74bfae8bf40f0b56e683a953ee927~mv2.jpg)
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I am a self-taught figurative painter living in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
I'm inspired and react to what happens around me. When I come across a photo reference that can tell a story, I'm very excited. With each painting, I hope to capture something interesting, a glaze of humanity and thus touch people.
Watercolor for me is an endless media. Occasionaly , I finish with a touch of ink.
I started painting recently and since then I participated in several group exhibitions.
The paintings that are exhibited here were painted during the October 7 war, under the influence of the disaster, the trauma, the pain. Hamas brutally murdered around 1,200 citizens and soldiers and abducted around 250 people from Israeli communities into Gaza, where roughly half remain.
The late Yonat Or and late Ablom Mills from Kibbutz Be’eri and the late Golani soldier Sergeant Shalev Dagan were murdered on October 7.