Michael Smither: Portraits

Michael Smither, sees the 77-year-old artist setting aside increasing health issues to take on a series of larger-than-life oil portraits. Starting in 2014, Smither has been asking people from his daily life to sit for him. Though he stays away from the internet himself, he cites the images of atrocities in the Middle East to be found there as his stimulus. Counterposed to those barbaric images, his ‘head shots’ will transcribe the experience and vitality in faces he knows well.