Wood doesn’t openly criticize the lifestyle of his models but focuses more on the use of colour and form in order to create beautiful paintings, inviting the viewers to immerse themselves in.
In the show What The Moon Saw by integrating the freedom of abstract gestures with a complex figurative vocabulary, Smith achieved a language of her own.
I immediately fell in love with the luminescent swirls of light, the exquisite gradients of colour and the quasi sculptural impasto of oil that characterizes her innovative abstractions.