Gillian Lee Smith is an artist and model maker who originally studied costume design at university were she learnt to illustrate characters which she now uses in her work today. Smith's inspiration comes from the idea of story telling, personal emotions and the use of imagination, helped by her job working with people with dementia were she uses objects to stimulate memories.
Her work includes mixed media pieces with media like acrylic, chalk, ink, water colour and oil pastels which create a dark but almost mystical, fairy-tale feel to the pieces. Within her sketchbook, along with costume and character designs, is writing of her most deepest inner thoughts which she then develops into her larger mixed media pieces.
I absolutely loved the pieces that I saw at the creative industries day and would defiantly consder buying one. I think the appeal is the use of emotive faces and colours that Smith uses I also like the idea that she links her job with her passion as I think it's something thats quite rare but is something that everybody would love to be doing. I am defiantly inspired by her works and I really want to try using the theme and design of her works but put them into a textile format.
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