Roderick Smith

Roderick Smith travels up and down the western United States painting en plein air, finding vistas that catch his eye and call to his spirit of adventure as an artist. His paintings are alive with movement, his rich color saturated palette a joyous experience for the viewer. Roderick says he feels as if he is in a special "portal" of time and place while he is painting. It is as if his brush just moves in reaction to his exhilaration of painting the moment before him.
Roderick has a BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology, worked in commercial art for three years, and has studied painting in New York at the Art Students League and at the National Academy of Design. His desire to travel to paint other cultures and places led him to San Miguel de Allende in Mexico where he studied portraiture, and spent time painting. He loves painting the natural beauty of California's beaches and finds that special "portal" of time and place painting the missions of California. For Roderick, every day is a new opportunity to seek out the living moment waiting to give life to his canvass.