Exhibition and events:
The exhibition is comprised of various wood-based installations, a genre that has always intrigued the artist and one, which he has explored since his college days at Ruskins School of Art, Oxford University in 2009. Using discarded wooden-pallets, the sometimes large-scale installations (Project
The exhibition features paintings of portraits and still-lives, which reference traditional genres, motifs, and techniques. Smithson’s compositions grow from preparatory and underlying drawings. She uses a palette limited to browns turning to violets, ochres, rose red and petrol green.
