About

Painted in Avalon, Sydney Northern Beaches.

Halee Smith is an artist who lives and works in Sydney’s Northern Beaches (b.1981). Raised in the NSW Northern Rivers,  much of her inspiration has come from her surroundings… swimming every day in the ocean, immersing herself in the natural elements. Expression for Halee comes in many forms, from painting, photography, singing, dance, interiors and anything that engages the left side of her brain. 

For Halee, The story matters.

The space tells the story and sets the stage for the image to be properly explored. Halee likes to work on larger scale pieces, because it finishes a room with purpose and proportion.

Her art consists of those elements of the earth; pumice from a washed out beach, burnt charcoal, earth ground up and mixed with colour for texture and layering. Much of her painting style is self-taught and created through more than 20 years of a love for art, photography, music and anything creative. Life is her muse.

No canvas is less than 900x900. The space tells the story and sets the stage for the image to be properly explored. 

The elements, The texture

Her art consists of those elements of the earth; pumice from a washed out beach, burnt charcoal, earth ground up and mixed with colour for texture and layering. Much of her painting style is self-taught and created through more than 20 years of a love for art, photography, music and anything creative. Life is her muse.

Nothing is planned, the art emerges from her interactions with daily life and her love of mother nature’s beauty. 

Art is a feeling captured in time

 Halee’s body of work explores the silent emotions of the everyday. The moodiness of time, how we relate to our lives in any given moment. Dark hues that reflect the lightness of being. 

Halee’s artwork comes to life even more in the night time, the refraction of interior light bringing out the depth of her paintings and drawing the watcher in even deeper. 

Bodies, nature, the elements all moving in motion, conveying the watcher to that location and immersing them in thought and evoking a feeling, a mood, a memory or a moment. 

Each piece is one-of-a-kind, capturing a unique moment in time for the watcher to create a story of their own. 

“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”

Jackson Pollock