Guinever Smith

Guinever Smith, an American artist, was born in Louisville, Kentucky June 3, 1960. She is noted for her post modern realism. Her paintings are in many public and private collections. Her sister, Melissa Smith, is the director of the American Contemporary Theater in San Francisco. She was a fellow at Yale-Stoeckel in 1985 and has been honored by her home state as a two time winner of the Al Smith Fellowship. Guinever was featured in the KET program "Looking at Paintings" (see: 1 ) as a remarkable current painter.

Guinever Smith received a bachelor’s degree in painting from the University of Louisville and a master’s of fine arts in painting from the University of Cincinnati. From 1988 to 1993, she taught painting, drawing, and two-dimensional design at U of L. She also founded the Studio School in Louisville, where she is now the head instructor in drawing and painting.

Guinever’s own work has been featured in a variety of exhibitions. Some of the more recent ones include Language of the Land: Contemporary Landscape Paintings of Kentucky and Ecuador in Lexington, KY and Quito, Ecuador; the Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show in Boston; and a solo exhibit called Small Horizons at the Heike Pickett Gallery in Versailles, KY. Collections where her work can be found include those of Bellarmine College, the University of Kentucky Art Museum, Brown-Forman, Commonwealth Bank, and the University Club at U of L.2

In 2000, she traveled to Ecuador where she represented the Kentucky Arts Council and lectured and presented her work. She resides in Louisville Kentucky and is married to David Mosley and has a daughter, Isabel Lily Mosley.

She has said about her work "We are always looking at horizons. Every time we gaze out of a window or look down a road, our eye fastens on a place where land and sky meet—the horizon.

Often our view is obstructed. Telephone wires, buildings, signs along the road rise up and interfere. But the horizon continues. If we move away from the city, if we walk in the woods, at some point we reach an opening, a place where we look out, and the land meets the sky, at the horizon.

For me this is a restful place. It speaks of calm. And yet, at dusk, when the sky is colored with light, the wind creates a breeze, the clouds shift, the trees turn, and the landscape, for an instant, is alive and moving. The horizontal band becomes universal and speaks loudly of the power of nature and the forces behind it.

This is what my paintings are about. The force of nature. Its beauty. Its power. And its ability to change, to provide new views, over and over again."