Georgina Smith creates 3D relief paintings of buildings. She studied Illustration at the University of Westminster in the late 90’s and that is when she first started working in this textured relief style. After a trip to Venice she felt that she couldn’t evoke the crumbling, decaying buildings with flat line and colour so she started to layer up with cardboard, fabric and paint to create texture and depth.

In 2013, after a successful career in retail display, Georgina returned to painting taking inspiration from her new hometown of Brighton. She has honed her technique, bringing more precision yet maintaining the painterly style. Georgina’s work is inspired by the connections between typography, architecture and nostalgia. She aims to document the architectural history of buildings that are still clinging on despite the encroaching modern world. In particular Georgina loves Art Deco buildings and the typography from that era.

In 2019 she got through to the final judging for the Lynn Painter-Stainers prize, the Secret Art Prize Longlist and also the final round for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. For the past seven years Georgina has opened her home in May, under the name The Coal Hole, as part of Brighton’s long-running Artist’s Open Houses Festival.