Painter, mixed media artist, Hout Bay
Samantha Lee Osner
Quiet, feminine and full of light. Samantha Lee Osner paints, works in mixed media and uses the camera as part of a wider creative process, often as the first layer of a work rather than the last.
See the work Her story
Harmony in Bloom, original
“I am drawn to minimalism and exude a feminine style. I explore various mediums, including paint, transfers and overlays, to uniquely capture the world's beauty and the nature around me.”Samantha Lee Osner
The work
Seven bodies of work
From hand painted canvases to impressions made entirely in camera. Every work opens large, and every one links straight to the shop for sizes and prices.
Original Paintings
Précis canvases, abstracts on canvas and paintings on metal.
16 works
Mixed Media
Painted over, transferred, gilded and assembled by hand.
23 works
Painterly Impressions
Soft abstracts made in camera, with no paint at all.
37 works
Seascapes
Long exposures of a calm Western Cape sea.
30 works
From canvas to wine label
Divine Harmony
The largest of the Précis paintings, in ink, oil and acrylic on canvas, became the label of the 2025 Bloupunt Chardonnay, paired with a poem by Craig O’Flaherty. A soft, minimal landscape about the quiet, healing quality of open land.
Précis is hand painted in editions of three, up to 150 x 180 cm.
See the Précis paintings
About
A borrowed camera, and then everything else
In 2013, on a gap year, Samantha Lee Osner sat in on one of her father Martin Osner’s lectures, borrowed his camera and tripod, and never looked back. Five years later she held her first exhibition. When the gallery in Hout Bay opened, the landscape photographer Koos van der Lende told Martin to give her half the walls.
Today she paints, works in mixed media and runs Osner Gallery with her father.
Read her storyTeaching
Learn with Samantha Lee Osner
Photoshop for the Artist
Her online course, 22 lessons on hand painting, transfers, montage and more.
$490, online
One to one lessons
An hour on Zoom, on whatever you are working on.
$90 an hour
Workshops
She assists Martin Osner on his workshops at Swellendam, Montagu, Stilbaai, Marloth Park, INARA and in France.
In personJournal
Notes from the studio
Painting over photographs: how a print becomes a painting
How a photograph that never quite worked becomes a painting, from Ethereal Majesty to Symphony.
From canvas to wine label: the story of Divine Harmony
How a Précis painting became the label of the 2025 Bloupunt Chardonnay, with a poem by Craig O'Flaherty.
What to hang above the bed
Soft palettes, the right size and height above the headboard, and why a single horizon helps a room rest.
Visit
See the work in person
Most of these works hang at Osner Gallery, 14 Luisa Way, Hout Bay, where Samantha Lee Osner is in most days. The father and daughter exhibition of 2026, Impressions of Grace, opens on Saturday 28 November.
Plan a visitLetters
New work, exhibitions and studio notes, a few times a year
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