Ivy Smith

"I am a figurative painter and printmaker. My principal print method is relief (both lino and woodcut) but I also use etching and lithography.

My prints and paintings relate closely, as I will explore an idea through both media, and I feel that over the years the ways of working have influenced each other quite strongly. My main subjects are people and landscape. A series of twelve watercolours of Whitlingham Marsh led to a large woodcut (my first) and two etchings, and recent work includes large-scale paintings of groups of swimmers, and linocuts of single swimmers. My prints are not the paintings in a different form, but are a new idea tried in a different medium."

Ivy Smith studied at Central School of Arts & Crafts, Chelsea School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, London. Her work is held in many public and private collections and she has undertaken numerous public commissions. She has won awards and prizes for her work which include First Prize John Player Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, a prize at the Bradford International Print Biennale, a Landscape Prize at the Eastern Open and many more.

Ivy has also painted many notable portraits, and she is happy to undertake commissions. For further details please contact us or visit the link below.

Ivy Smith Portraits

Solo Exhibitions

2007
Drawings For Paintings, The Prince's Drawing School, London
2006
Drawings For Paintings, The Cut, Halesworth
2004
A Year On The Marsh, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
2000
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury
1996
The Schoolhouse Gallery, Wighton
1995
Exx Projects, London
Art Workers Guild, London
1991
Wingfield Arts & Music, Suffolk
1987
Contact Gallery, Norwich
1986
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
1985
Oriel 31, Welshpool
University Library Gallery, Sheffield
1984
Fermoy Centre, King's Lynn
1974
Royal Leamington Spa Art Gallery