“The job of an artist is to keep people’s eyes open.” says artist Robert Schoenberg and Jules Smith accepts that challenge.
She rises each day curious to discover what longs to be made through her. Courageously seeking to uncover the buried treasure within her she paints what she experiences; landscapes and seascapes, portraits that tell stories of the people and times we are living through and is inspired by patterns of light and shadow, studying texture and form, beauty, humility, and injustice. Raised in California, she currently splits her time between her home in Puerto Rico and hometown in California.Van Gogh, Edgar Payne, Douglas Shively, Mary Cassatt and all the impressionists influence her. Jules studied art at Ventura College under Richard Phelps, Carlisle Cooper and others, more recently at Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design. Oil, pastels and gouache are her preferred mediums. Jules is a member of the California Art Club and the Pastel Society of Southern California.