Caitlin Smail

ABOUT CAITLIN

My creative focus is on exploring my emotional landscape through memories of childhood, relationships and the important places in my life.  I use a variety of mixed media… from abstract painting to collage… incorporating found objects, old photographs and memorabilia.

 

More recently I have been using the ancient art of encaustic wax to add luminosity and depth to my images.

 

I divide my time between London and the Suffolk coast where much of my inspiration lies. I also used to practice as an art psychotherapist in adult mental health in North London.

LONDON ​EXHIBITIONS/GROUP SHOWS

  • 2024 EFOA Open House
  • 2023 EFOA Open House
  • 2022 Surviving the pandemic with art therapy (online exhibit)
  • 2021 The Northern Line @ The Highgate Gallery, Londo
  • 2021 Wish you were here @ Yorkton Studios, Hackney
  • 2021 Where we are Longing to be in Lockdown  (online exhibit)
  • 2020 EOFA at Stephens House, East Finchley, London
  • 2020 Climate Change is Real, Online exhibit
  • 2019 Primavera, The Barbican, London
  • 2019  EFO Open Studios, London
  • 2019  Parklife, Stephens House, London
  • 2019  50:50, Highgate Society, London
  • 2018  Urbs, Phoenix Cinema, London
  • 2018  Arboretum, Stephens House, London
  • 2018  Beyond Words, Darnley Galley, Hackney, London
  • 2017  Almost Wabi Sabi, London
  • 2017   EFO Open Studios, London
  • 2016  Labyrinth, The Crypt Gallery, London
  • 2016   EFO Open Studios, London
  • 2015   Art & Healing, Tavistock
  • 2104   Art & Healing, Universities Womens Club
  • 2013   Art & Healing, Freespace Gallery, Kentish Town
  • 2013   Art & Healing, UCLH
  • 2012   Paper Nautilus, Southern Row, London
  • 2011    Emerging Identities, The London Art Therapy Centre
  • 2011    MA Degree Show Hertfordshire University
  • 2010    Secret Den Pure Evil Gallery, Hoxton, London
  • 2010    Day4 ‘Ulysess II’ The Print Space, London
  • 2010    Art Therapy The Gallery, Hertfordshire University
  • 2008    Secrets & Shadows Foyles Gallery, London
  • 2007    What Haunts You? The Photographers’ Gallery
  • 2006    Works on Paper Flux Factory, New York, USA 
  • 2005    Art in Mind, Viande Gallery, Hoxton, London
  • 2005    Ulysess Project Blink Gallery, Soho, London
  • 2004    Future Map, The Davies Street Gallery, London
  • 2004    Home is Where… The Home Bar, London
  • 2004    Now let see some of your art… CSM, London
    2004    Day 4: Home is… Westbourne Studios, London
  • 2003    Mutiny at The Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf
  • 2001    Lost Property The Roundhouse Undercroft 
  • 2001    Xhibit The Davies Street Gallery, London

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2016     Dreamscapes. EFOA Open House
  • 2015     Art of the Subconscious. EFOA Open House
  • 2008    Music in Mind. The Seymour Practice, London
  • 2006    In a girl’s head. New Hall Gallery, Cambridge
  • 2006    It’s the little things. New Hall Gallery, Cambridge
  • 2003    Bite. The Cobden Club, London
  • 2002    Foretaste. St Martin’s Lane Gallery

MY WORK

“In my artwork I use found imagery, objects and text, along with a combination of other media to explore the themes of memory, innocence and loss… often creating unexpected assemblages, which invite viewers to ​create ​their own narratives.”