Time and tide wait for no man. As was my experience in making this body of work. I showed up each day to a different tide, to a different light and with a different sense of self, yet anchored by the routine of painting. I’d like to think there’s comfort in that life is ever changing, waiting for no one. The new work certainly hosts it all: the shifting of tides, familiar spaces and the subtle changes they present, island living at its best.

The show was born out of the Mary Oliver poem “I Go Down to The Shore”. Oliver alludes to the waves moving about their business regardless of what we bring to the shore. My time on the islands is quite literally structured by the tides, silent observations of a changing shoreline and the reminder that time is elemental in nature. I meet the sea, each day, with my own work to do.

- Kathi Smith