Jewel of the Eye by Blu Smith

Website Link to painting: Link to West End Gallery: Blu Smith Biography As a young man, Blu Smith worked as a sign painter and commercial artist, developing his painting's accuracy and precision. However, it was these attributes that Smith came to find restricting -- his mature style as an abstract painter began as an exercise to free himself from the technical restraints of realism. Non-representational work became a creatively freeing direction that evolved his unique voice as an artist. "I look at my paintings not as individual pieces but rather as a living, breathing and constantly changing body of work. It does take on a life of its Smith says about his process. His subject matter is based on organic shapes with strong ties to nature, balanced with cavernous spaces filled with light to glow with an atmospheric quality. Typically, Smith begins with