Bainbridge Arts & Crafts will honor the memory of island artist Elizabeth Reed Smith, who passed away earlier this month, with a special display of her work on display now through mid-February.

“All of us at BAC are saddened by the loss of Elizabeth Reed Smith,” said BAC spokeswoman Georgia Browne. “She was an incredible artist, a wonderful teacher and a good friend.”

Smith permanently relocated to the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s, teaching and showing her work throughout the region — including at BAC. Her first BAC gallery talk took place in 1991, and her first BAC solo exhibition happened in 1998.

Her work has also been featured at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and, most recently, in the group exhibition “Trees in Art” at The Gallery at Grace last August.

A world traveler, teacher and artist, Smith held her first solo exhibition in 1981 in Brighton, England, after which she continued to exhibit extensively in solo and group shows in her home country. She was tapped for numerous commissions and publications and was also featured in a 1990 BBC documentary that showcased her start-to-finish methodology.

Smith most often focused her artist’s eye on forms in nature. Employing an incomparable skill with fine line, she created drawings and prints that revealed trees and shrubbery for what they really were: intricate riots of geometry that were simultaneously formal, graceful, elegant and wild.

“In my work I seek to convey the clarity, beauty and simple majesty of the commonplace, otherwise so easily taken for granted,” she once wrote.

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