Sally J. Smith (artist)
Sally J. Smith is an American artist who creates fairy house sculptures and land art.[1][2] She is based in Westport, New York near Lake Champlain[3][1] in the Adirondack Mountains.[4] She grew up in Shelburne, Vermont and previously worked as a watercolorist[3] and illustrator.
Smith runs the artist studio Greenspirit Arts.[1] She makes sculpted fairy houses out of natural and human-made material,[3] with most of the houses standing 12 to 18 inches tall.[5] She creates both temporary fairy houses in nature and others for indoor display.[1] In 2017, her book Fairy Houses, How to Create Whimsical Homes for Fairy Folk was published by Cool Springs Press.[6]
Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History.[3]
Works[edit]
Illustrator[edit]
- Grandfather Four Winds and Rising Moon (1994) by Michael Channin[7]
- Dragon Soup (1996) by Arlene Williams[8][9]
Author[edit]
- Fairy Houses, How to Create Whimsical Homes for Fairy Folk (2017)[10]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Tortorello, Michael (1 October 2014). "Leave Your Wings at the Door". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
- ^ "Stunningly Serene Land Art by Sally J. Smith". My Modern Met. 12 December 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ^ a b c d Jones, Rachel Elizabeth (14 August 2019). "Art Review: 'Fairy Houses From Nature by Sally J. Smith,' Henry Sheldon Museum". Seven Days. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
- ^ Sally Smith: The Fairy Queen. Mountain Lake PBS. Roadside Adventures. 1 October 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ^ Brock, Chris (8 April 2017). "Fairy tale life Adirondack artist writes the book on creating houses for tiny garden dwellers". NNY360. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ^ Demski, Joanne Kempinger (20 March 2017). "13 new garden books to inspire, inform and charm you this spring". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
- ^ Littlewood, Lee (9 March 1994). "Kids' Home Library: Telling timeless tales". Hazelton Standard-Speaker. p. 7. Retrieved 15 June 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Dragon Soup". Publishers Weekly. 22 January 1996. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
- ^ "Children's Choices for 1997". The Reading Teacher. 51 (2): 133. 1997. JSTOR 20201872.
- ^ Browning, Dominique (4 June 2017). "Outdoors". The New York Times Book Review. Retrieved 12 February 2021 – via Gale Literature Resource Center.