Chesapeake Oystermen

Garvin Smith grew up exposed to the Art culture and museums in Washington DC and Baltimore, Md. At the early age of four he started drawing, by the age of seven did his first oil painting studies. His Father started teaching him the camera basics at the age of nine and he did his first commercial job at the age of fourteen. His art and photography style today are heavily influenced by his studies at the George Washington University's Corcoran College of Art & Design and the Washington Color school artists. Today he still uses film and this old school mindset and discipline when creating his black and white digital works. As an Artist, the camera is one of the tools that he uses to capture nature's creations. Nature provides many types of beauty…. landscape and the human form. We just have to create the framework that directs the viewer to the main point of interest. As an artist he uses his camera or brush to capture his subject and light as his medium to define and accent the beauty which creates the illusion of mystery and evokes emotional responses within us.