Smith Gary | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

Caravaggio, Rembrandt or Edward Hopper are among Gary's main artistic influences. He works oil painting with a knife in a figurative style (portraits, landscapes, still lifes). Fluid and natural, his actions seem to forget the long years spent perfecting his technique. The artist finds inspiration while walking at the seaside or in the lively atmosphere of the city. Bright and colourful, his works celebrate the spectacle of ordinary life: a gull skimming the surface of the water, a man covering his head with a newspaper to protect himself from the rain, a pigeon mimicking passers-by, a row of glittering scarlet payphones in the fog... Beyond the realism of the subject, Gary wishes to capture the atmosphere of emotionally charged moments.