Instagram feed giving a behind the scenes look at paintings in progress in the studio. A focus on details, texture and surface.

angelasmithart

BSMS 2024
Modern Artists Gallery 2023
Royal Academy Summer Exhib 2022
Painter, pourer of gloss paint and tilter of canvases. Message for enquiries.

Just finished this new small painting with somethi

Just finished this new small painting with something tiny, complex and cocooned. Pairing it with this recent painting makes sense to me, what do you think?
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#newpainting #contemporarypainting #artwatchers #artcollectors #newartwork #diptych #artcurators #surfacetension #colour #detail #paintingnow

Back from holiday and it’s good to see my painti

Back from holiday and it’s good to see my painting table uncluttered and ready for action!
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#artiststudio #paintingstudio #contemporarypainting #artwatchers #colour #color #surface #studiolife #pattern

Seeing some great art in Istanbul, it felt good to

Seeing some great art in Istanbul, it felt good to be in Chiharu Shiota’s red world…
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@istanbulmodern @basilicacisterna #basilicacistern #istanbul #contemporaryart #chiharushiota #olafureliasson #contemporaryart #artwatchers

Zooming in to see the details of these tiny paints

Zooming in to see the details of these tiny paintskins is making me want to go large…
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#paintskins #paintingstudio #surface #artnow #artwatchers #artcollectors #detail #contemporarypainting #layers

Giving these painted domes a spin to see if I can

Giving these painted domes a spin to see if I can make their eyes work as a pair…
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#artiststudio #contemporarypainting #contemporarysculpture #artwatchers #artcurators #painter #paintingnow #eyes #studioview

Slowly getting to understand 3d a little better…

Slowly getting to understand 3d a little better…
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#artiststudio #contemporarypainting #paintingnow #surfacetension #experimenting #artistsoninstagram #gravity #3d #studioview #abstractpainting #artwatchers

Painting on a curved surface is challenging! Here’s a view from above, balanced on a jar and a detail. I’m going to make more of these, I need to figure out how I can securely hang on a wall…
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#painting #paintingnow #contemporarypainting #experimenting #surfacetension #curve #paintingstudio #artistsoninstagram #artwatchers #artcurators

Experimenting with painting on 3d surfaces. This i

Experimenting with painting on 3d surfaces. This is a dome I made out of plaster and covered with a thick paintskin that’s now firm enough to use as a surface…
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#artiststudio #experimenting #layers #surface #contemporarypainting #artwatchers #paintingnow #colour #color #gravity #artistsoninstagram #painter

A great day out with Ruddy Cheek yesterday, thanks

A great day out with Ruddy Cheek yesterday, thanks so much for sharing your space @townergallery I spent the day drawing my fellow artists and lovely bundle of energy Phoebus who tested my speed drawing! Back to reality now and collecting my drawings not selected for Trinity Buoy Wharf although I take comfort in knowing I’m in some very good company….
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@ruddy_cheek #artistcollective #artistssupportingartists #townergallery #drawing #perseverance #keepgoing #worksonpaper #figurativedrawing

Resisting the temptation to go colour mad… . . .

Resisting the temptation to go colour mad…
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#contemporarypainting #artiststudio #painting #layers #artistsoninstagram #experimenting #paintpouring #paintingnow #gravity #artwatchers

Two new small paintings that are slowly drying and

Two new small paintings that are slowly drying and one is keeping its beady eye on me…
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#newpainting #contemporarypainting #eye #paintingnow #artwatchers #artcurator #pouringpaint #surfacetension #watching #artnow #paintingstudio #newartwork #artiststudio #artistsoninstagram

Trying to figure out how to capture these delicate

Trying to figure out how to capture these delicate layers before they slip away…
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#contemporarypainting #artwatchers #layers #delicate #gravity #fleeting #painting #artistsoninstagram #paintingnow #pouringpaint #artiststudio

A couple of new tiny paintings at 15cm square. I’m finding this is a good size to try and figure things out - aiming to understand weight and space a little better…
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#newpainting #paintingnow #contemporarypainting #artwatchers #experimentingwithcolor #newartwork #space #weight #artistsoninstagram #pouringpaint #abstractpainting #artiststudio

This painting attracts quite a bit of attention f

This painting attracts quite a bit of attention from studio visitors, some want to keep their distance whilst others want to poke it! Its skin is pretty strong now and I’m happy it will stay in one piece. I feel it’s earned its title of ‘Gutsy’…
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#contemporarypainting #gravity #paintingnow #artnow #studioview #painting #artwatchers #artcollectors #artcurator #artistsoninstagram #skin

Good to be back playing with paint after loads of

Good to be back playing with paint after loads of drawing…
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#abstractpainting #playingwithpaint #artiststudio #artwatchers #paintingnow #contemporarypainting #fluidpainting #artistsoninstagram #pouringpaint #colour

Would you like to live forever? I’m not so sure

Would you like to live forever? I’m not so sure but I’m delighted to be showing in The New Immortals curated by Judith Alder at Brighton and Sussex Medical School until 17th May 2024. Please see the link in bio for full details of the exhibition including the symposium when academics and scientists will respond to the artworks.

I’ll be a showing a series of etchings which explore the search for immortality and the dilemmas it creates. Including these two - Fishing for an answer and Second thoughts.

From the exhibition essay for the original New Immortals by Sheila McGregor: “Angela Smith’s new suite of etchings examines the history of miracle cures and rejuvenation therapies, with a surreal and deadpan detachment that leaves questions hanging in the air. Fishing for an answer is inspired by 19th century French scientist Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard, a pioneering figure in the development of endocrinology who often experimented on his own body.”
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@judith.alder #thenewimmortals #contemporaryart #immortality #myths #miracles #etchings #newexhibition #brighton #artcurator #artnow

Super slippery paint… . . . #paint #gravity #stu

Super slippery paint…
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#paint #gravity #studioview #artiststudio #artistsoninstagram #paintingstudio #3d #slippery #movement #keepgoing #surfacetension

I’m keeping on with my challenge to make a new p

I’m keeping on with my challenge to make a new piece of work every day. Here are days 36 to 42…
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#figurativedrawing #dailydrawing #sussexartist #paintingnow #artwatchers #artcollectors #artistsoninstagram #contemporaryart #challenge

Now at the end of week five of making one work eac

Now at the end of week five of making one work each day, I’ve also included a couple of plants because they make me happy! A beautiful fishbone cactus and one of my many pilea peperomioides. Still going, not running out of steam yet…
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#dailyartpractice #figurativedrawing #contemporaryart #artwatchers #artlovers #plantlovers #plantsmakemehappy #linedrawing #artistsoninstagram

It’s the end of week 4 and I’m still going! Ma

It’s the end of week 4 and I’m still going! Making one work every day…
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#figurativedrawing #pendrawing #keepgoing #contemporaryart #artnow #dailyartpractice #artiststudio #artlovers #artwatchers #artistsoninstagram

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