Member Biography

ARTIST STATEMENT

"In each of my drawings I endeavor to celebrate nature within a time and space beyond the mere place of inspiration. Like artists throughout time, I invite the viewer to enter my world and, by so doing. make it their own.

Not all my subjects are mature statuesque trees. Often a simple copse or hedgerow, which has stood for many years, unnoticed, or a forgotten gateway, catches my eye. Nature in its untended form inspires me, whether it be bowed by weather or hindered by the sharing of light and space with its surroundings. In my work I seek to convey the clarity, beauty and simply majesty of the commonplace, otherwise so easily taken for granted.

Whether it be woodland of my native English beech or the windswept confiders of the Pacific Northwest, I seek to blend the precision of the Victorian engraver with a contemporary appreciation of light, color and texture. The intricacy of my drawing is achieved with a crow quill, with nib reversed for the finest of lines. Every pen stroke is final and so the picture is built, one stroke at a time. "

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Elizabeth Smith's art
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