Angela Smith

Angela spent her childhood exploring imaginative worlds and make-believe through her reading and believes this has influenced her painting and her need to tell stories. She studied English Literature & Politics in Manchester before moving to London to work in Investment Banking. It was in a local cafe in Kings Cross, listening to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons that she recalls suddenly knowing she wanted to be an artist.  Angela went on to study Painting at Wimbledon School of Art and since graduating in 2004 has exhibited in solo and group shows in London, NYC and the South East.

“I am a figurative painter interested in narrative and exploring the space between fact and fiction. My paintings are rarely portraits but more hybrid figures made up of found images and layered with imaginings, emotion and experience. The figures exist in another world but are touched with human spirit and nature. I see making art as a form of story telling and making sense of something deep inside, whilst hopefully creating something that others will find pleasure and meaning from.”