Gratefully I am ‘living the dream’ of the artist’s life.
My main interests have always been people, pets and light and shadow which I enjoy in painting what I experience around me.
Fortunately I now travel to paint and exhibit my art in Asia and Paris as well as in Canada. Lately as part of Eureka Global Art I go to China as part of their Belt and Road Initiative. I really love it and and enjoy the cross cultural aspects of sharing my own art with other artists. The art sensibilities of Chinese artists are different that ours and that opens up a whole new world of ideas for me to explore.
We have been hosted by amazing art supporters in China who have been most gracious to us. I have been collected by Art Museums in China and through Eureka Global Art am now under contract to the prominent and very important Art Collector, Mr. Yan Lu Gen in Nanjing.
In our November trip to Lanxi City I did many portraits in pastels (a medium and activity I totally love) of the Ministers of Zhejiang Province. That was a most wonderful experience.
My murals have always been adventures in themselves from Synagogues to on cliffs high above the ocean. I do portrait commissions and murals and my paintings are represented by the John A. Libby Gallery in Toronto, by my agent Eureka Global Fine Art globally, and by Yan Lu Gen.
I am not the first to say it but “The first art is the art of living”, so I live a full and exciting life and hopefully my paintings reflect that in a way that can be shared and appreciated by others.
Gary Smith
