Gregor Smith is a Scottish painter and printmaker living and working in Glasgow. He studied drawing and painting at Edinburgh Collage of Art from 1962 to 1966, subsequently teaching art in various schools in Central Scotland from 1968 to 2006. During this time he painted and exhibited in several galleries and principal annual exhibitions in Scotland and London. In 1983 he was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour.
Information for printing and painting is sketched on site mainly around Scotland during Autumn to Spring. The site may be on land where the drawing can be more exact or at sea where a rapid response to the subject is best. Working outside has to be achievable, especially where high winds are not uncommon. Drawing materials are kept to a few, mainly soluble graphite sticks, selected pastel earth colours, a small sponge and some heavy-duty bulldog clips. The sketchbook is carried in a plastic folder with hardboard backing. Location, day, date and time are noted and the sketch annotated both on site or later if required. Winter weather brings its own dramatic backcloth, precipitation and turbulence, vanishings.
