virginia gail smith

Welcoming Nature Into Your Space

In a time when many of us are seeking deeper meaning in our surroundings, my work offers a quiet invitation: to bring nature home. Through textures, colours, and forms inspired by the Canadian landscape, each piece helps you rediscover the beauty in the everyday.


Crafted with care and consciousness, my art transforms the discarded into the precious—reminding us of the value in what we overlook. You’ll find branching patterns, leaf veins, wood grains, and earthy motifs that reflect nature’s cycles of growth and decay, permanence and change.


My sustainability studies have redefined how I make and think about art making, bringing art out of grandeur into a more tender, elusive, thoughtful, idealistic space. I play with materials that have a first life story, subtle but present, and more ephemeral materials with shorter histories but often more complex. 


 These works emancipate the future by creating with biodegradable materials, realigning us to the connectedness of the natural world.

Lichee peel, dandelion root, corn silk and avocado shell.

pine cone, birch bark, corn husk and grape vine. 

Doodle hair, dried fern leaf, corn husk and avocado peel.


Whether you're curating a calming space, sparking reflection, or simply looking to bring the outdoors in, these works are co-authored by nature and designed to nourish the soul. They’re not just objects—they’re experiences that root you in something timeless, tender, and alive.

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