Smith Holt

“My interest is in form, texture and color.  Certain things lend themselves to the impasto style for which I use a (painting) knife. (Impasto is a technique used in painting where paint is laid on an area of the surface (or the entire canvas) very thickly, usually thickly enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. Paint can also be mixed right on the canvas. When dry, impasto provides texture, the paint coming out of the canvas. (From www.wikipedia.org))   Others are better rendered using a glazing technique (thinned coats of paint applied in layers and allowed to dry in between).  At times I will try both techniques, and clearly one doesn’t work and the other does.  It’s a learning process.  I can see my progress.  I have lots of work in the basement that I wouldn’t show.”  (Most artists do, by the way, have a stash of hidden ‘oops’ pieces).