'The most important influence on an artist is his or her environment' in relation to Jeffery Smart

'The most important influence on an artist is his or her environment' In my opinion, artists create art to try and share with the world something they consider important. They create to attempt to evoke thought on a subject, to bring out the emotions of the viewer - it may be about something they find beautiful, or something they hate, or something they wish to make a statement about, or they could even create an …

…exactly follow the trend, and so his influences may not be the same as the majority of artists. There is a huge variety of different art forms, and there is a plethora of different ways in which an artist can be influenced. When it comes right down to it, it really depends entirely on the individual artist as to how important the environment is as an influence, and as a source of inspiration. Patrick Whyntie