Wendy Smith
Inspiration is taken from the world within and around. My inspiration is a personal response of experiencing and living in different environments. These experiences are then recreated and relived through sculpture and painting in abstract form and colour. 2005 –2006 has been spent working and travelling overland in Asia. Naturally this has influenced my latest work with the varying extremes and differences of cultures, colours, resourcefulness with materials and processes of making.
Work is on a free-lance basis, with a studio base at the New Art Centre, Chatham, Kent. I combine personal creative practice with exhibitions, art residencies, community sculpture, garden projects and as a visiting lecturer for visual studies at the University of Greenwich.
Commissions include work for corporate organisations, homes, publishing companies and community related work.
Training
- Central St Martin’s college of Art & Design, London (Fine Art Sculpture)
- Facultat de Belles Artes, Barcelona
- Pickards School of Garden Design, London (Planting and Garden Design)
Residencies
- Hadlow College of Horticulture
- ISP (Integrated Services Programme)
- Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi, India 2005
- Creative Research Project in Asia 2005 – 2006
- Great Dixter House and Gardens, Northiam, East Sussex 2006 – 2007
- Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, India 2007 – 2008 (Arts Council England Funded)