The Mood Room · Eric Smith
Eric Smith Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Eric Smith
A Life of Color and Devotion Eric John Smith began his life in Brunswick, Melbourne, where he first learned the fundamentals of commercial art and painting at the Brunswick Technical School. His early years were shaped by the heavy responsibilities of adulthood and service; he joined the Australian Army in 1940, spending much of the Second World War away from the easel. When the conflict ended, he returned to Melbourne to continue his
studies under a rehabilitation training scheme at RMIT. There was a quiet, hardworking quality to his early existence, a period marked by the grit of a man who once worked as a window cleaner for David Jones. In 1952, Eric and his wife, Joy, moved to Sydney, a change that would eventually place him at the center of the Australian art scene. For a time, his studio was simply the bedroom they shared, a modest space where he began to fin…
Set the room's
mood
— the light follows
Now showing —
All
· —
works lit