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Artist Statement:
All of my artwork is depicting
light and shadow at extreme's,
through intense color and high
contrast. My subject matter
come's from different places
within myself and my
interactions with the world
and nature. I love to paint
portraits, so you will find
faces from the past as well as
people who are in my life now.
Recently, I have been
abstracting portraits of
animals, with the idea to
render animal spirits. My
animal spirits live within a
memory landscape. Here my
memory landscape is not
painted from reality, but from
my imagination and usually use
a palatte knife to attain the
surreal surface. Many times
in these memory landscapes I
will have stencils of my hand
prints, these are a symbol of
prayers. I chose to paint
animals in nature to show my
concern for the environment.
Human's impact on this earth
is causing catastrophic
change. The animals are
feeling these changes first,
we need to see this extinction
and realize that this is our
fate too, if we don't change.
My goal is for my compositions
to jump out at the viewer,
with the eyes of the spirit
animals telling you to pay
attention....
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Kaila Farrell Smith Biography:
| Biographical information for Kaila Farrell Smith can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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26
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Committed
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
not provided |
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| Education |
Bachelor of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Travelling, Camping, Reading, Riding bikes |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Modernism - (1890 - 1940)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Rick Bartow
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| Favorite Work of Art |
The Red Room, by Henri Matisse
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
The metaphysical world which interacts through spirits with nature, and ourselves. Travelling around the world has always inspired and given me a plethora of landscapes to work from. My indigenous heritage has given me much to draw from, with the legends and myths of tribes here in the Pacific Northwest. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I have been an artist since I was a small child. Both of my parents are artists, and since I could pick up a crayon my mom had an art studio for me. Drawing is the most natural thing in the world for me to do. It is like how I breathe and walk around. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Kaila (Ka-ee-la), is a Klamath Indian word for the mythological character who created the earth. Kaila also means the world, the land and creation. I was born in Ashland, Oregon in 1982 and grew up in Eugene until I was 13 when we moved to Wiesbaden, Germany for four year with my family. I am a Klamath tribal member and now live in Portland, Oregon. I am an artist who works with a variety of mixed medium including oil, acrylic, and watercolor paint, pastels, intaglio, monotype printing, pencil and ink. I graduated with a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2004, and received a full Dorothy Lemelson Scholarship all four years. During this time I travelled and studied in Cortona, Italy and Santorini, Greece. My periodic travels have continued here in the U.S. as well as thoughout much of Central and South America. In addition to my art and travels, I have worked as an environmental activist and fundraiser for various state and national organizations out of Portland, Oregon.
My compositional themes are varied. I have produced different series of portraits, landscapes, old world stone alleyways, spirit birds, animals and salmon. My travels and personal reflections continually inspire new themes. My work has been described as psychological, surreal, archetypal, and impressionistic. As an artist, I have been described as having good command of the human form, a strong compositional style, and a superb colorist. |
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