Sep 1, 2025
Vicki Smith (Canadian, 1958) - Flora (2024)
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Vicki Smith (Canadian, 1958) - Flora (2024)
Vicki Smith, “Spring Swim” / "Flow Forward”, 2023, Oil on Canvas. Canadian artist.
In Vicki Smith’s Dreamlike Paintings, Women Court Peace in Pools and Lakes
The scenes she renders today are meant to be bucolic, reminders of childhood moments that were easier and more carefree, flooded with endorphins. They appear, in a way, to be anti-Ophelias: summery and nostalgic, each one born from photographs Smith has taken of friends and family lounging in bodies of water: St. John’s, Banff, Vancouver, Florida, Hawaii, Mexico. She uses either her iPhone or an underwater camera, and her reference photographs are strewn about her third-floor studio in Toronto’s Parkdale. She paints from morning into the early afternoon in total silence, an effort to achieve the same meditative state of her subjects. Then she scrapes it all off and starts again. Her first four hours, she explains, are garbage.
Read more at thewalrus.ca.
Paintings by Vicki Smith, courtesy of Bau-Xi Gallery (bau-xi.com)
In Vicki Smith’s Dreamlike Paintings, Women Court Peace in Pools and Lakes
The scenes she renders today are meant to be bucolic, reminders of childhood moments that were easier and more carefree, flooded with endorphins. They appear, in a way, to be anti-Ophelias: summery and nostalgic, each one born from photographs Smith has taken of friends and family lounging in bodies of water: St. John’s, Banff, Vancouver, Florida, Hawaii, Mexico. She uses either her iPhone or an underwater camera, and her reference photographs are strewn about her third-floor studio in Toronto’s Parkdale. She paints from morning into the early afternoon in total silence, an effort to achieve the same meditative state of her subjects. Then she scrapes it all off and starts again. Her first four hours, she explains, are garbage.
Read more at thewalrus.ca.
Paintings by Vicki Smith, courtesy of Bau-Xi Gallery (bau-xi.com)
Vicki Smith: A Quiet Refuge from Everyday Life Vicki Smith, One and the Same, 40 X 36 in., Oil on Canvas Toronto based artist Vicki Smith invites viewers into a contemplative world where stillness, presence, and self-awareness emerge through her luminous waterscapes and floating figures.... https://canadianartjunkie.com/2026/07/16/vicki-smith-a-quiet-refuge-from-everyday-life/
Buoyant, by Canadian artist Vicki Smith, from a 2018 exhibition at Bau-Xi Gallery in Vancouver. Smith is currently in the two person show Swimmers with photographer Joshua Jensen-Nagle at Pendulum Gallery.