Aida Smith

PAINTER / WELLINGTON

BIO

About Aida Smith

Aida Smith is a Wellington-based New Zealand oil painter. Her still-life and landscape paintings draw on personal history and the natural world, forming an autobiography in paint. Her work moves between direct observation and remembered experience.

Sustainability is central to Smith’s practice, shaping both subject and method. She uses solvent-free professional oil paints and works without mediums or varnishes, guided by the belief that art should exist in harmony with the world it depicts.

Smith was a finalist in both the 2025 National Contemporary Art Award and the 2025 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award. Her Home·land series explores how the places we inhabit shape our sense of self.

Browse Aida Smith’s available works below, or enquire about a piece.