Teresa Smith

Gold Stream, Oil Painting

2018

Artist Comments
Teresa Smith describes a colorful day spent in Goldstream Provincial Park in British Columbia as her guiding inspiration for this painting. "It was fall and the salmon were running. The big leaves were falling; bright golds and orange with dark green backdrop of cedar. The bracken ferns were dying back and turning a beautiful burnt alizarin color." Teresa used a gold underpainting in the work to provide striking contrast, and also paired it with pops of reds and blues.

About the Artist
Teresa Smith captures the soul of the Canadian landscape in her contemplative oil paintings. Teresa gathers impressions of the land around her remote island home on horseback rides accompanied by her Irish wolfhound. Her works capture the light coming through the trees, a richness of color, and the interconnectedness of nature. Her subjects emerge through lyrical brushwork, sometimes with light streaming as if through a stained glass window. Her major influences are Georgia O’Keeffe, Emily Carr, and the Canadian Group of Seven, the latter of whom pioneered a distinctive style defined by a direct connection with nature. In addition to painting, Teresa is a master gardener, and she grows food year-round in her garden and volunteers in the community to educate and diagnose plant problems. She works from her studio on the top floor of a barn overlooking the pond and trees, where deer walk by and ducks swim. According to Teresa, "much of today’s art is based on concept. That is, the artist has an idea, then uses their art to educate and inform. I do contemplative painting, which is different. For me, it is allowing the painting to unfold in a contemplative or meditative way."

Words that describe this painting: abstract, landscape, nature, trees, Vancouver, Pacific Northwest, impressionism, nature, representational, oil painting, green

Gold Stream
Teresa Smith
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Finished black edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2018
30 in. h x 40 in. w x 1.25 in. d
5 lbs. 13 oz.