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

Illustrator
  • Grandfather Four Winds and Rising Moon (1994) by Michael Channin[7]
  • Dragon Soup (1996) by Arlene Williams[8][9]

Author
  • Fairy Houses, How to Create Whimsical Homes for Fairy Folk (2017)[10]

References
  1. Tortorello, Michael (1 October 2014). "Leave Your Wings at the Door". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  2. "Stunningly Serene Land Art by Sally J. Smith". My Modern Met. 12 December 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  3. 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.
  4. Sally Smith: The Fairy Queen. Mountain Lake PBS. Roadside Adventures. 1 October 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Littlewood, Lee (9 March 1994). "Kids' Home Library: Telling timeless tales". Hazelton Standard-Speaker. p. 7. Retrieved 15 June 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Dragon Soup". Publishers Weekly. 22 January 1996. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  9. "Children's Choices for 1997". The Reading Teacher. 51 (2): 133. 1997. JSTOR 20201872.
  10. Browning, Dominique (4 June 2017). "Outdoors". The New York Times Book Review. Retrieved 12 February 2021 – via Gale Literature Resource Center.
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