"Smith’s work challenges conventions of organic and artificial beauty. Distilling a sense of place from encounters with the natural and industrial worlds, she evokes paradoxical, even contradictory emotions at the same time. Optimism and expansiveness, threat and distress, symmetry and entropy, creation and destruction." — Andi Campognone, Museum of Art & History, Lancaster CA

As my work evolves and becomes more layered I find myself exploring patterns and color, organic floating shapes that are interwoven with a geometric underlayer.

My paintings—a reflection that describes the complex counterbalance of asymmetries found in the dynamic forces of nature—explores balance, and examines "Patterns" in our environment. Subtle variations of complementary hues, and warm and cool rhythms of light create an equivalence on all sides of the canvas. Layers of color, sometimes precisely blocking color first, then building, patterning and layering again, are not just recording nature, but actually feeling its rhythms and changing seasons, I’m very influenced by my solitary walks and direct relationship with the environment in California.