STATEMENT

I am a female visual artist who evolves around things happening around and deconstructs that into my inspiration to create work that sparks a conversation. I am able to bring the uniqueness of a subject to life using my multimedia disciplinary skills. 

Art gives me immense joy to recreate what I see and experience around me through colors. Through my art I want to express the feeling and emotions where words fail. I predominantly like portraying women empowerment, nature and wildlife through art in abstraction form. I strongly believe in biodiversity and that each creature is valuable be it small or big. Hence, you will find many of my solo shows combined with wildlife.

My creative process can be categorized into four steps: Inspiration, preparation, creating and reflecting. I extract inspiration from life, nature, events in news or anything that connects to me and talks to me. With the subject in my mind I then move onto preparation to develop sketches and drawings. At this stage, I reflect on questions like What should my style be? and Should it be abstract or should it be refined and detailed? 

These questions help in determining my colors, values, texture, pattern and composition. The rough sketch is then transferred to larger canvases or panels. I call this stage the ugly stage. In my style of painting I usually keep the focal point detailed, leaving the rest all abstract .This focal point is the dominant and strongest with the greatest visual highlights. Once the painting is finished or near the stage of completion I leave it for some days to reflect and rework if need be till it evolves to what I visualized.

BIOGRAPHY

Smitha George is a self-taught artist with a love for wildlife and nature. Majority of her childhood was spent traveling which helped her understand different cultures. After majoring in finance and having worked in the field of finance for many years, she decided to take a break when she moved to the USA. This gave her an opportunity to dive deep into the world of art.

For her, painting is a different language and an expression of ideas. All the artwork is inspired by the day-to-day things she sees around her, be it the current political, social issues or simple things from nature. In her work, the subject matter determines the materials and forms the art.

In 2017, Smitha began painting professionally, since then there has been no looking back. Her first group show was in 2017 and from then on she has had many solo and group exhibitions in and around Kansas City. She also had the privilege to jury on many art shows and be on panel discussion. She also enjoys working on many commissioned works. Smitha now works from her home studio.