b"Soul GathererColour, while subtly enunciated, is also a highly important expressive tool. Ifeel colours, he says, and every day is different. Sometimes I feel moregreen or blue, at the time Im doing. Its like a little voice in my head saying,right, you want red now, or dark red, or white, green, or whatever. I just takeit as it comes. Remarkably, Smiths chosen medium for drawn line andcolour in both his drawings and sculpture is graphite and colour pencil. Theselend themselves well both to the physicality of his technique and a felt need toavoid chemical paints and varnishes. By repeatedly working into his surfacesand over existing marks Smith achieves deep, subtle effects. Aided by the waxbinding agent in colour pencils, he is able to, as he puts it, really embed it.He will lay colour on colour and polish and polish. I get right into it. I just rubit. It comes off a bit, and I do it again.'Untitled' 2013. Crayon on found card, 5.5 x 8 ins.14"