Kathleen Smits

Artist Statement

Kathleen Curran Smits 2011

My artistic visions are intended to satisfy a need for beauty and serenity, fun and curiosity. I believe strongly that we need to be able to immerse ourselves in aesthetics from time to time in order to keep our sanity. At least that is how I keep mine. I get lost in my work.

I started my professional art career painting landscapes in oils. Most of them have little sense of human presence, the viewer is alone with nature. I follow something of the essence of the Hudson River School in that way, trying to preserve our innate need for connectedness to the earth and its beauty.

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