Andrea Smith
 Andrea's paintings are journeys to enlightenment. "We must confront ourselves, and discover a balance between our contrary selves." Her works, like her words, express the endless process of humankind in search of purpose and harmony.
For Andrea Smith, art is not only a thing created, it is also a thing that creates. Art is meant to challenge the mind, to summon new insights, to pose new ideas. It brings our values and attitudes into question. Art is a force that dares us to look within.
In image and composition, Andrea conveys a poweful conviction: that life in all it's forms in interdependent and its aim is peace. Using a blend of ancient and unconscious symbols, she fills each canvas with the textures and tones of our modern, complex world. Yet each portrays a time and place that are universal and ageless. Once more her words are revealing: "I believe the earth is a classroom, and we come back again and again to learn to live together with ourselves."
Her work has been called surreal, abstract, expressionistic, sensual, and mystic. Surely it is all of these and perhaps a good deal more. Freedom, love, and gladness can be felt in every sweep of her brush. But most of all there is intuition, as if some greater awareness were using her talents to present its special wisdom. She paints with her "inner eye," allowing her art to flow without restraint. Andrea Smith was drawn to art by its widely instructive and creative potential. A former teacher, she has brought her knowledge of people into the very shapes and themes of her work, achieving an emotional relationship with her viewers. Indeed, she is able to reach and kindle our deepest and finest instincts.
Andrea's messges are on the well-being of the planet and its inhabitants. Her art and her philosophy speak of a growing planetary awareness, of right though, and of opening ourselves to the peace, harmony and joy of sharing our love and positive energy with one another.
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