Smart Studio, Maine: The Artists.

The Artist, Wini Smart

RECEIVING over 30 awards, Wini Smart is listed in Who's Who in American Art and World's Who's Who of Women. She has operated the Smart Studio gallery in Maine since 1967 and opened the Florida gallery in 1980. Her paintings have found a ready market with locals and visitors alike. Paintings are in private and public collections in nearly every state and in Europe, Canada, and South America. She has painted eight corporate murals.

Wini Smart has a heritage of sea life. Her ancestors owned or sailed schooners from Maine to Cuba. Born in New Jersey, her parents farmed and were wholesale florists. This background is apparent in Wini's love for the sea and nature. Living near the sea is important; the artist now lives in her studio home on the water's edge on Cranberry Island in Maine and on a bayou in Florida. These locations offer much inspiration.

Wini's daughter, artist Gail Cleveland, is carrying on the tradition by managing and exhibiting in the Smart Studio gallery in Maine.

Wini's e-mail address is:

Résumé

Studies
Philadelphia College of Art
Art Students League of New York City
Also with Don Stone, Mario Cooper, and Tom Nicholas.

Solo Exhibits
In Pennsylvania
Union League, Philadelphia

In New Jersey
Asbury Park Society of Fine Arts
Guild of Art
Central Jersey Bank
Georgian Court College
Monmouth County Library
Toms River Historical Society

In Maine
Northeast Harbor Library

In Florida
Art League of Marco Island

Exhibited in many juried shows in New York City, also museums in Newark, Morristown, Montclair, and Trenton, and most major colleges.

"Wini Smart has been painting since early childhood, making her first sale at age 8! She paints in a realistic-impressionistic style, capturing the essence and feeling of the Florida scene"
BOCA BEACON, Florida

"She is well known for her ability to capture in paint what happens where land meets sea. Her fluid technique enables her to render the essence of water and makes us feel its wetness. She captures the feeling of a particular time of day with its distinctive color and auras... and the moment and excitement."
BAR HARBOR TIMES, Maine

"Wini Smart's paintings reveal nature in many moods"
ASBURY PARK PRESS, New Jersey

The Artist, Gail Cleveland

GAIL CLEVELAND had an early introduction to the world of art when as a young child she accompanied her mother, artist Wini Smart, to museums, galleries, and painting excursions.

Living in Maine year 'round, she is constantly inspired by the changing seasons. In addition to her formal art training, this third-generation artist has been studying art and nature for over thirty years. Her firsthand experiences are expressed in her award-winning watercolors, oils, and limited edition prints, now included in numerous collections throughout the United States and Europe.

The busy summer months find Gail managing and exhibiting at Smart Studio, Northeast Harbor, Maine. She also shows her work at Smart Studio, Boca Grande, Florida; The Whales Rib, Cranberry Island, Maine; and the Bass Harbor Country Store, on Mount Desert Island, Maine.

Gail's e-mail address is:

One of Gail's "People Series 2" sculptures