john smither
"Forest Walk #1"
Commissioned by VML for the main conference room of their downtown Seattle office. This wall size, multi panel piece depicts a collage of abstract versions of local Pacific Northwest lowland forest plants.
"Forest Walk #1"
Commissioned by VML for the main conference room of their downtown Seattle office. This wall size, multi panel piece depicts a collage of abstract versions of local Pacific Northwest lowland forest plants.
"Forest Walk #1"
Commissioned by VML for the main conference room of their downtown Seattle office. This wall size, multi panel piece depicts a collage of abstract versions of local Pacific Northwest lowland forest plants.
Commissions
"Forest Walk #1" for VML
Commissioned by VML for the main conference room of their downtown Seattle office. This wall size, multi panel piece depicts a collage of abstract versions of local Pacific Northwest lowland forest plants.
"Forest Walk #1"
oil on panel 48" x 270"
2025
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"7th and Lenora" for Nine dot Arts / Amazon
Over the summer of 2024, I moved my studio to the Amazon Spheres Understory building in downtown Seattle for a paid residency. The Understory is directly below Amazon's giant four story glass terrarium/work area. The work seen below is the multi-media wall mounted installation that I created as part of the residency contract. It has also been shown at the Amazon Rufus building in Seattle. The work has now been realeased and is available for purchase. The installation captures my abstracted interpretations of the incredible tropical plants in the Spheres and mixes it with my impressions of the neighborhood where the building is located.
"7th and Lenora",
oil on panel 60" x 80" $8000 (excludes tax and shipping)
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"7th and Lenora" video
"Cascadian Book of Hours" for Seattle University
The images shown on this page are a few of the twenty five painted panels that were commissioned by Seattle University in 2021 to enhance their campus. This work follows a seasonal cycle of abstracted visions of Pacific Northwest flora as it goes up the five landings of the Bannon Science building's north stairwell. The project was completed in 2022.
"Cascadian Book of Hours",
oil on panel, 25 panels across five stairwell landings
First stairwell landing "Late Summer"
Third stairwell landing "Fall"
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First stairwell landing "Early Summer"
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