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Gillian Lee Smith
Welcome! I am a professional artist and teacher. I paint from the heart and I believe in the life-changing power of art and creativity. I am delighted to bring to you this collection of online art courses and resources to support you in your own journey of creating art.
With a degree in Performance Costume from Edinburgh College of Art, I graduated in 2005 and moved to Nottingham where I returned to my first love of drawing and painting. I now work from my studio focussing on narrative art inspired by individuals and communities and their impact and relationship with the land and the environment in which they live. This combines my fascination with history, people, the coast and storytelling.
My online courses build on this desire to teach the fundamentals of art whilst also inspiring you to create your own pathways in expressing all that is inside.

Originally from the East of Scotland…
I recently moved to the beautiful, rugged and inspirational North-East coast of England having previously been a reluctant city dweller for the last 15 years. My own art is all about connection – connection to people both in the present and in our individual or collective past. I also seek to portray a connection between people, communities and the places in which they reside.
Coastal communities live between the land and sea where my work portrays remnants of my own family history and those who came before me. Old houses provide backdrops to people who are between spaces, part of our past but also alive in our memories and consciousness.