Drawing Inspiration
The movement of colour the gestural lines of objects within nature they create a rhythm in the land. These elements and how the light moves over them is where I draw my inspiration. Inspired and mystified by nature my thoughts and feelings are interpreted through paint, ink and words. My work can often be accompanied by written observations, ideas or poems formed while creating the work. My intention is to provide the viewer with the possibility of a previously unknown observation.
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April 2022
CLIMBING FENCES NEW EXHIBIT
I am having a new exhibit this May at Colborne Street Gallery in Fennelon Falls, Ontario. The exhibit, Climbing Fences encourages the viewer to explore how we view nature. Where some answers are obscured or dreams discovered. Where what we see has deeper meaning then what we see, and perhaps it is at these edges we can meet and see things in a new way.
March 2021
Working on a New Exhibit
THE STONE WITNESS
A show I am working on exploring the history held within the land. It's beauty and it's darker corners. Involving painting and printmaking, written observations or poems.
September 2020
Recent Solo Exhibit
THE LOST AND FOUND PROJECT
This exhibition’s idea came from actually getting lost and found by Search and Rescue in a forest area in Ontario. It is a perspective changing experience a guest of wolves an owl, snow and a full moon to guide you in your solitude.
October 2020
Printmaking it's a thing!
I have always been interested in printmaking and it just seemed to be a natural to expand my work. I so enjoy creating these new images with Linoleum block and Etchings on acetate.
September 18 - 19 2021
Apsley Autumn Studio Tour
This is such a fun event to participate in. The Studio Tour has been running for over 25 years now. Artists open their studio's to the public for a weekend Art!
September 2018
The Artists of Kawartha Book
This is a great book showcasing many of the Artists in the area. I was very happy to be asked if I would like to be in it along side so many other artists that I admire.
Watercolour painting
The Beauty of Paint and Paper
New Work for an upcoming Exhibition CLIMBING FENCES
New Show with work in Oil and Watercolour, handmade prints as well as written observations. May 2022
Featured Work
Handprinted, this month Milkweed on Blue a reductive Lino Block print.
Milkweed on Blue 1 of 9
and also application of the inks.
Size: matted (white) 11 x14" window opening 7.5 x 9.5"
It's a Colourful Landscape Out There
Before language could change the truth. Before the Earth was known as the Earth. The Stone Witness
David Smith 2021
Bring the Outside Inside
There is a Hill
An acrylic painting from The Lost and Found Project 3ft x 4ft. This painting was inspired by the idea that there is something just over the hill to find or attain.
Time well Spent
A reductive Lino block print inspired from a friends photo of a very well used chair on the beach in Nova Scotia, how many sittings it has seen no one knows.
Talk to Others
Another acrylic painting from The Lost and Found Project. The poem that accompanied this piece is.
I am told you talk to others through your roots, like we do.
When you're Lost and Found
This exhibition’s idea came from the end results of actually getting lost and found by Search and Rescue in a forest area in Ontario. The guest of wolves an owl, snow and a full moon to guide you in your solitude. Resulting in the loss of how I viewed myself and the environment and finding new perspectives for both. The paintings are accompanied with writings that I have written providing the viewer with the possibility of seeing unknown observations for themselves.
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See new works as they develop. How a show comes together.The Stone Witness show explores the primitive energies held within the land. The history of that energy that moves in everything. The dark places that when observed can lead us into new unknown observations.
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This exhibition’s idea came from the end results of actually getting lost and found by Search and Rescue in a forest area in Ontario. It is a perspective changing experience spending hours in the dark, an unexpected ill prepared guest of wolves an owl, snow flurries and a full moon to guide you in your solitude. Paintings that resulted are accompanied with writings that I have written as a result of the journey of being lost and found.
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