Spring Smith is a Santa Cruz, California–based artist, herbalist, and award-winning acupuncturist whose work is deeply influenced by her background in Traditional Chinese Medicine and her reverence for the healing power of the natural world.
Spending the earliest years of her life off-grid and immersed in nature profoundly shaped her creative spirit. Surrounded by the Sierra Mountains, plants, animals, and the quiet rhythms of the living world, these experiences became woven into her inner landscape and continue to guide her work today.
Drawn to lush landscapes and wild places, Spring is happiest outdoors with a journal or paintbrush in hand, observing the quiet relationship between people, plants, animals, memory, and spirit.
As a mother, she believes one of the greatest gifts she can offer her son is a deep connection to the living, breathing world — nurturing curiosity, imagination, reverence, and a sense of belonging within nature.
Working across watercolor, graphite, acrylic, oil, and mixed media, Spring creates intimate symbolic narratives inhabited by women, animals, botanicals, and dreamlike landscapes.
Her work explores themes of healing, transformation, memory, connection, and belonging, inviting viewers to remember that we are not separate from nature, but deeply intertwined with it.
