Smith's work demonstrates an ongoing dedication to a distinctively personal brand of landscape-based abstraction: a subtle evocative style of painting that draws inspiration from Eastern traditions. His Pine illustration has featured in other paintings in the Open Eye Gallery, such as Red Pine and Night Pine.

Ian McKenzie Smith OBE PRSA PPRSW, born 1955

Montrose-born McKenzie Smith studied at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen and Hospitalfield in Arbroath. He has been in the mainstream of the modern Scottish abstract-art movement as both a painter and an administrator and is a tireless supporter of the arts in Scotland.