Paige Smith-Wyatt

Dr. Paige Smith-Wyatt is an award winning contemporary painter. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally and is in numerous public and private collections. She began painting at an early age and pursued formal art education (BA, MPS, PhD) to refine her practice and process from technical skills toward a dialogue with the natural world that is rooted in contemplation, tranquility, humility, and compassion.

Paige was born in Alabama and spent her childhood roaming fields, woods, and streams on her family’s farm, which she credits as being her main inspiration to become an artist. She has lived and created in New Mexico, Alabama, Virginia, Nevada, Texas, New York, Hawaii, North Dakota, and the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana. She continues to maintain a close connection to the land, drawing deep inspiration from the serene beauty of the high desert. Paige lives and paints in the village of Corrales, New Mexico.

Artist Statement: "Built on a foundation of classical training, my expressive, abstracted landscape and still life paintings trade meticulous detail for heavy texture, capturing the fleeting experience and atmosphere of nature. I swap literal accuracy for visceral sensing and e...

2020 Ph.D. Florida State University - Art Education - Art Practice Research focus: contemplative art-making, grounded in identification with Nature, for self-care, wellbeing, resilience, and the development of compassion. Dissertation: Landscape Orientation

1997 MPS Pratt Institute - Art Therapy and Creativity Development

1993 BA Huntingdon College - Fine Art, Painting

2025 Legends of the West Fine Art, Santa Fe - Plein Air Painters of New Mexico National Exhibition
2024 Loveland Museum, Colorado - Expanding Horizons National Exhibition
2024 Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico - ArtsThrive
2024 Legends of the West Fine Art, Santa Fe - Plein Air Painters of New Mexico National Exhibition
2024 The Architecture of Beauty - Works by Prominent New Mexico Artists - New Mexico Cancer Center Gallery
2024 Weems Gallery, Albuquerque New Mexico - Paint New Mexico exhibition
2024 Masterworks of New Mexico, Hispanic Art Gallery at Expo New Mexico - Award of Excellence
2023 Salmagundi Club, NYC - Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club’s 126th Anniversary National Exhibition
2023 American Women Artists Member Exhibition
2023 FUSION Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico - New Realism
2023 Weems Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico - Pastel Society of New Mexico member exhibition
2022 Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM - Pastel Society of New Mexico National Exhibition
2022 Art Students League Of New York group exhibition
2021 E.L. Blumenschein Museum, Taos, NM - Taos Plein Air National Exhibition
2021 Sorrel Sky Gallery, Santa Fe, Plein Air Painters of New Mexico’s 13th National Juried Exhibition
2021 Taos Plein A...