Dwight Smith

Mending, Original Painting

2020

Artist Comments
A culinary-themed still life featuring a Honeycrisp apple and sewing thimbles. "The beautiful profession of farming requires many hours of pruning or mending crops and orchards," says artist Dwight Smith. "I used tools related to sewing in the creation of this concept. Both sewing and farming require skillful hands."

About the Artist
Dwight Smith depicts commonplace objects with a sense of playfulness and humor. His watercolor still life paintings appear conventional in their soft colors and composed compositions, but upon further observation the juxtaposition of unrelated items make for delightfully surprising combinations and comparisons. This transformation of the everyday, and strong graphic style, lend the work a pop feel. However, pop art is generally cool and ironic. Instead, there is a familiar and comforting sense of kitsch and Americana in Dwight’s subjects. In a similar fashion to the work of American artist Wayne Thiebaud, Dwight paints food and sweets of the American appetite. Doughnuts, hotdogs, and lollipops are captured in all of their potent delight. He plays with scale and composition to bring out a sense of the absurd, but ultimately his goal is to make the viewer smile.

Words that describe this painting: still life, realism, food, fruit, apple, sewing, thimbles, autumn, fall, farming, still life, realism, representational, watercolor painting, red

Mending
Dwight Smith
Watercolor painting on paper
Ready to frame
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front
2020
9 in. h x 12 in. w
0 lbs. 2 oz.