About this episode
Send a textMay 13, 2024Creative ContemplationS3E3 Laura Smith Creative Contemplation podcast host & creator Suzanne Lago Arthur has a very special conversation with British painter Laura Smith about her work, her formative years and the extraordinary training she acquired with some of Britain's most beloved observational painters. This is truly an episode you don't want to miss!Website: laura-smith.comInstagram (Painting): laurajrsmithNEAC: Laura SmithCrean and Company (Gallery): Laura SmithArtists Mentioned:William ColdstreamEuan UglowFrank AuerbachAndy PankhurstLeon KossoffLucy JonesFrancis HoylandBio:Laura Smith trained at The Slade School of Fine Art where she won the Clare Winsten Memorial Award, graduating from her MFA in 2012. A still-life painter working towards the abstract tradition, she is interested in dissolving our familiarity with everyday objects. Her current work explores the idea that repeated motifs enable a deeper and freer investigation of the objects themselves. The paintings often depict emotive gestures and actions, where objects take the place of the loved, the abandoned and the closely held. Host Bio:Suzanne Lago Arthur is a contemporary realist painter from Northern Virginia. Born in Puerto Rico to Cuban-American parents, her artistic explorations were nurtured from an early age by her family.Through her paintings Suzanne explores the themes of beauty, transience and memory. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally in such venues as the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Art Museum of the Americas in Washington DC, Booth Museum of Western Art in Cartersville, GA, the United States Interests Section, Havana, Cuba and in art galleries across the United States. She holds a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art and an MA in Museum Studies from George Washington University.Website: www.lagoarthurstudio.comInstagram:
