Kate Smith, born in Birmingham, Alabama and raised predominately in Jacksonville, Florida moved to New York City after graduating from the University of Florida in Economics. She is married with three children and lives in Huntington, New York.
Although exposed to the arts as a child visiting museums in Washington, D.C. and across the county, Kate truly fell in love with art on her first trip to Italy in 1987. Upon commissioning portraits of her children and watching the image develop, she became interested in learning the art of painting.
She began to study with a friend and portrait artist, Victoria Carlin at The Village Artist in Huntington. Ms Carlin tutored Kate in oils and inspired her to look at the world from the perspective of an artist. She soon joined Ms Carlin and other artists on Plein Aire trips to Italy, Canada, France, Ireland and South Africa.
As her love and passion for painting grew she explored additional mediums of art. Kate has spent the last 12 years studying with high acclaimed pastel artist Diana DeSantis. In addition she has extended her studies in watercolor, oil and the fundamentals of drawing and painting with world-renowned highly acclaimed artists and teachers.
She is now a teacher of children and teens at The Village Artist.