Catalogue of Smith’s third solo exhibition with the Michael Gibson Gallery. Crater Ponds, reference the fertile areas and swamps that Smith discovered as a child growing up in England. The crater ponds were made by the bombs that were discarded in the English landscape during the war. This series continues Smith’s interest in painting a place where both history and the present draws its continual scars and remembrances.
Born in Derby, England in 1951, Michael Smith has lived in Montréal since 1978. He received a BFA at Falmouth College of Art in England and completed a MFA from Concordia University, Montréal in 1983.