Marie Smith
I love portraiture so I include people and faces into my work whenever possible.
I also love colour and experimenting so most of my paintings are colourful expressions with as much texture as the subject allows, and is an escape from the world of letters and lines which were hallmarks of my distant career as a screen printer and sign writer.
My workshop is an evolving display of quite different effects, background materials, various media as well as my expanding interpretation and exploration of quite varied subjects.
Exhibitions
I am motivated to paint with a theme for exhibitions.
Inside Out Exhibition held in 2022 was a joint exhibition with Jamie Congdon at The Old Fire Station Gallery Redcliffe
I have had four solo exhibitions at Artrageous Community Art Space In Deagon;
· Wandering out West in 2017
· Home and Away in 2018
· A focus on Birds in 2019
· New Directions in 2020
In 2019 - “We Three!” A joint exhibition with two other Sandgate artists at Percolator Gallery in Paddington, Brisbane.
Several individual and shared exhibitions at the Sandgate Coffee Club
International Women’s Day Warrior Women exhibitions in 2019 and 2020
Awards
Awards are but recognition of my work as an artist. I believe an artist needs to challenge themselves in various ways and to encourage their peers as well. As a means of challenging my colleges in SasArt, I document as many art competitions as I can in the SasArt weekly newsletter as I am the President of Sandgate Art Society and newsletter editor.
2021 Finalist in the Foot Square Exhibition at Aspire Gallery
2021 SasArt Easter Art Show – 2D – Highly Commended
2021 SasArt Easter Art Show – 3D - Highly Commended
2021 RQAS – 3D Different Dimensions – Highly Commended
2020 Finalist in the Brisbane’s Salon de Refuse
2020 Finalist (two pieces) Lethbridge Art Awards
2019 2D First Prize – Expressions Exhibition Sandgate
2017 Finalist Moreton Bay Art Awards
2016 Winner Gallery 4017 Community Exhibitions
E-mail: marie_21@bigpond.com Phone – 0417 739341 Facebook: Marie Smith and Marie Smith Art page…Instagram: mariesmithart www.mariesmithart.com