Accession Code: wu0353w Title: Mrs Smith in the Garden Date completed: 1970 Medium: Prints Material: Etching Height (mm): 358 Width (mm): 464 Depth (mm): n/a Inscription: Inscribed:Ivy Smith, 1970 and numbered 3/20 Location Name: Medical Teaching Centre Location Description: Corridor Location Floor: 0

The main subject matter in Ivy Smith's work is people whom she depicts with characteristically firm lines and clear forms. In composing her pictures she instinctively thinks in terms of mass, shape and colour and conventional perspective is sometimes sacrificed. "People and things get twisted and turned, simply because I want them to be that shape on the canvas . . . My backgrounds may be tipped all over the place and things shoved around so that the relationships of the people and objects meet my compositional needs." (Interview in 'Spiked' magazine, 2004)