"My paintings have rich, cool colors that create mysterious evening and night scenes thorough mood and atmosphere. Unlike the common myth that in light there is good and in dark only bad; I show beauty with-in dark environments. My evening and low-light scenes are not only visual, but elicit an emotional and spiritual, bodily effect of being there, of experiencing a particular time of day, a mood. My experiences in nature inspire me to use my imagination, memory, and occasionally my own reference photos for my subject matter. I use translucent, layered oil paint to build up a surface of subtle textures to give greater interest to my eerie mood paintings."

-- Allison J Smith