"With these new paintings, Charlotte Smith has gone from workmanlike, whimisical, crafty surfaces with encrustation of pleasing piles of paint and pigment to something enticingly lusty – wet and wild, even – and in the process is defining a new way of painting.

To the viewer, we enjoin: Revel in  Smith’s surfaces, and take note.  You are gazing upon a new, vital and optimistic way of painting.  These paintings are not understated, but they are beautiful.  Surrender to the emotions they invoke; open yourself up to these whorls.  What are you capable of perceiving I the depths of Smith’s pigment pools?" - Excerpts from recent essay by Catherine Anspon: author of “Texas Artists Today”

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