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Intimacy is small

At the outset, he resolutely opts for the small format: 24 x 18 cm. - so striving for a more intimate communication between art work and viewer, artist and art work, artist and viewer.

George Smits would keep on painting right up to his death, with his style and the formats of his work continually evolving.

In 1979 Smits wrote the following:

"Returns in 74'75, after wandering through more public-oriented media, to painting as old-fashioned but achievable communication method between people. Finds that a painting will speak for itself and a viewer should meet it halfway to form their own idea based on the visual signs and echoes. The ambiguity between the figurative and the abstract offers an opportunity for creative viewing. The works are small in size so they can express any fleeting emotion. The reintroduction of failure, the indispensable 'tragic' aspect that a lot of modern art is missing."