Irish-French artist Barbara Smith studied at Goldsmith’s College, University of London, which has helped to nurture many great talents including The Young British Artists. She also trained at Estudio Mariscal in Barcelona with Javier Mariscal, who is also one of today’s most innovative and original multidisciplinary artist-designers.

She currently lives and works in Brittany, France.

Barbara Smith’s work includes painting, sculpture, screenprints and photography, exploring different techniques such as drip-painting, text painting and also glitter. She values the process itself just as highly as the result. Visual references to popular culture, art history, comics, music are included in her work, frequently characterised by a distinctive and recurrent theme of the beauty of existence and its fragility, life, death and hope.

Keep Calm and Carry On print. Black ink on white art paper

Size 40 x 50 cm