Originally from upstate New York, ​​​​​​​Ted Smith is a recent transplant to the Carolinas having moved from Vermont two years ago. Primarily a plein air artist, Ted is drawn to the landscape and its continual state of change – changes in the light, changes in the season, changes in growth and composition. He works in a variety of media, including oils, watercolor, and pastel, pencil and charcoal.

Ted graduated from SUNY at Cortland where he received a BA in studio art. After college, he studied graphic design at the New England School of Art & Design in Boston becoming and art director and designer in advertising agencies in Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire before settling in Vermont where he had his own business working as a freelance art director and designer with clients all over the United States.

An avid drawer and painter since he was 12 years old, Ted is largely self-taught. While his formal education includes college and some professional workshops, he does not espouse to any particular school or painting philosophy. Throughout his career, Ted never lost his passion for painting and drawing, often taking time out during trips and vacations when he would spend time painting on location as he moved around. For many years, he participated in summer art shows up and down the coast of Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He has work spanning the last 40 years includes vistas across the Northeast and more recently near his home in southeast North Carolina.

Ted has won awards in a variety of summer shows in Maine as well as in the Maine Open Juried Art Show. In 2022, he retired and moved to NC where he currently resides in Sunset Beach. In 2023, he won honorable mention in the WAA Art Show and Sale at the Sunset River Gallery and just this September won second prize for a painting completed in the "Paint It Orange" plein air event in Hillsborough, NC.