Vanessa Smith began her artistic journey illustrating comic books, enabling her to depict scenes and stories within the confines a box.
In time vanessa transferred the bold graphic lines and mysterious, often vague narratives, into her painting.
Exploring a love of design and traditional painting, the contrast of flat linear elements and intricate oil-painted detail creates an image that is both bold and striking.
The shape of the room is the skeleton, the narrative fleshed out by the composition and layering of objects influenced by dystopian literature, film, music and the eerie, often unsettling landscapes of america.
smith's scenes allow the viewer to enter a room, assess the situation and come to their own interpretation of the next piece of the story.
