Rita Smith – New Work

Private View 21st February, 5 pm to 7 pm

The exhibition will run from 21st February to 21st March

February 2025. My new exhibition will consist of a selection of work, both watercolours and oil paintings, which I hope will encapsulate the essence of my long term interests, both in subject matter as well as exploring the possibilities of the chosen medium. My first love since my student days was for architectural subjects, which then extended to still life and interiors, attempting to give simple, overlooked domestic objects an architectural grandeur and inner life.

In December 2021 I saw a small exhibition of Georges Braque’s still life paintings at the Bernard Jacobson Gallery in London, titled ‘The Poetry of Things’. I’ve had a life long love of Braque’s paintings, and the exhibition stayed in my imagination and became the inspiration for many of the following paintings.


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