Julie Shelton Smith Newport, Rhode Island [email protected] : New Work ~ Face Paintings : home ...

My artwork dwells on qualities of quietness and intimacy, cherishing the extraordinary within the ordinary. As an Arteologist enjoying discoveries from the natural world, archives and imagination, pondering, noticing and wondering is delightful. The pieces I create reflect my observations and tell their own story.

storm, imagined, 155cm x 124cm, finished summer 2020 - Inspired by observations, watching, waiting and walking for duration of a year combined with memories.

Julie Shelton Smith was born and raised in Texas. After receiving a BFA from the University of Texas, she moved to Aspen, CO where she attended the Center of the Eye School of Photography. After five years, she relocated permanently to the East Coast.

Julie Smith is a landscape painter based in Ayrshire, Scotland - www.juliesmithartist.gallery.

Acrylic, mixed media on paper 16x20" canvas. Midnight Tidepool. Acrylic, Mixed Media Diptych 2 11x14" canvases

In 2008, Smith began a painting project called, “100 Women Over 50” in reaction to the invisibility of post-menopausal women in a youth obsessed culture. She felt that older women had too much experience and too much to say about life not be heard and seen.

Oil on board portraits of 100+ women over 50 started in 2008 and ongoing, the women are from RI, MA, CO, and MN. Several factors motivated me to start this project. My friend, Peter Hocking, revealed in a conversation in 2005 that he was painting 100 gay men. So I decided to paint 100 women. First I painted my friends; they then suggested others.

From Paleolithic to present, art speaks directly to us about the artist’s world and experiences in life. I hope that my work continues that unbroken line of expressing our common experiences - beautiful trees and vivid skies, the exhilarating cool of an early fall breeze, the dance of spring

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