About

Robert Smith is a British painter working between Devon and the Midlands, UK.

Robert creates abstract paintings inspired by the spirit of the St Ives painters – figures such as Roger Hilton, Terry Frost, and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. Their bold shapes, vibrant colours, and playful sense of rhythm are a constant influence, offering a way to capture light, movement, and atmosphere rather than a literal view.

In the studio, Robert works with a balance of instinct and structure. Loose, exploratory marks evolve into layered compositions where colour and form seem to converse. The process draws on the openness and unpredictability of the rural or urban landscape– moments of calm punctuated by bursts of intensity.

The paintings are intended as an invitation: not to be “solved,” but to be lived with, allowing the viewer’s own associations and memories to surface.