Julie Davidson Smith

Julie is an award-winning artist/mother/mountain biker/rock climber living in Kingston Ontario where she lives a fully creative life. Her vibrant paintings reflect this feeling of being total alive. Her works are lush painterly surfaces; a tapestry of bold brushstrokes and fresh fields of colour. Julie’s symbolic imagery of vegetation and figures in ambiguous landscapes reveal themselves through her intuitive mark making. This highly personal process has many layers of paint and colours that emote joy and a feeling of mystery – her figures are on a constant journey. Julie is BFA graduate from Concordia University and now resides in Kingston Ontario where she paints full-time. Her work has been exhibited in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and the U.S.

What do the critics say:

“The work is passionate, accomplished, engaging, and leaves the viewer anxious to see more.”

Richard Moll, 1998, The Kingston Whig- Standard

“It’s exhilarating to see an artist working with such self-confidence, setting herself challenges and meeting them so successfully.”

Melanie Dugan, 2002, The Kingston Whig-Standard

“A painter who is in full control of her medium and whose work demonstrates confidence and energy”
(Melanie Cowell, 2014, Adjud...

Bachelor of Fine Arts Concordia University

Currently represented at the O'Connar Gallery, Gananoque, ON.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018 Echos In Light, Gallery Unit 115, Kingston Arts Council, Kingston, ON.
2015 New Gravity, Studio22 Open Gallery, Kingston, ON
2011 Passengers, Wellington Street Gallery, Toronto, ON
2005 Full Circle, Engine Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2004 Flow, Engine Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2002 Overflow, State of Flux Exhibition Space,
Modern Fuel Gallery, Kingston
2001 Nomadic, Sleepless Goat Gallery Cafe, Kingston, ON.
2000 Thousand Islands Playhouse, Gananoque, ON.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018 Marcia Rafleman Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2016 Recent Works Loft Exhibition – Julie Davidson Smith &Tracy Olan, Kingston ON.
2015 Juried Art Salon, The Tett Centre For Creativity & Learning, Kingston Arts Council, Kingston ON.
2014 Juried Art Salon, The Wilson Room, Kingston Arts Council, Kingston ON.
2013 OKWA 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Kingston ON
2012 Juried Art Salon, Kingston Arts Council,
2011 Wellington Street Gallery, Toronto, ON
2011 Synergy, Ontario Kingston Women Artists, The Parrot Gallery, Belleville, ON
2010 Best Foot Forward, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly MA, U.S.A.
2010 9th Annual Juried Art Salon 2010, Kingston Art C...