Harrison Smith

Beauty is found in the details. I often find myself out on a walk with my dogs or driving home from school, and I'll notice some detail of the setting around me. Could be a colour or a shape, or the way the light reflects. I call it the art of noticing. I'll see a rich green out on my local walking track and use it for a woman's eye, or I'll notice a deep blue on a fallen shadow and use it for a moody background. This is my job as an artist: to capture the hidden details of the world around me on canvas. The message I want to communicate to my viewers is to not overlook the details, because it's in the details that we discover the truest form of beauty, and where we discover the magnificence of God's creation. To me, the art I create is an expression of who I am as a whole. Everything I've gone through, every feeling I've felt, every season of my life has found some expression through what I create. If I have a happy week, then I paint out of the overflow of joy in my heart, and if I have a rough chapter, then I pour my feelings and thoughts into what I create. Who I am and what I create are not separate things: they are two sides of the same coin. To me, this is what makes my art meaningful: the fact that it is infused with all my raw emotions and thoughts. 

Works by Harrison Smith