Sanctuary

August 2026 · Opening August 7 · First Friday Art Walk Sanctuary Teresa Smith  ·  Britt Freda August 7, 2026 — September 3, 2026 Bainbridge Island  ·  Park City Virtual  ·  Worldwide OPENING AUGUST 7 Collector Portal Sanctuary — August 7, 2026 The Exhibition Two painters in productive tension. Teresa Smith paints the Douglas fir forests and salt water shores of the Pacific Northwest with the specificity of long attention — these are places she knows, painted by someone who has been looking at them for years. Britt Freda paints the animals those same places are supposed to protect.

The title names what both bodies of work share and complicate. Sanctuary as landscape, as cathedral, as ecology — and sanctuary as something under pressure. A collector standing in front of both bodies of work in August understands the tension without needing it explained.

These works belong together. The Artists Teresa Smith · Britt Freda View All Artists → Teresa Smith Oil on Canvas · Pacific Northwest Landscape Smith paints the Douglas fir forests and saltwater shores of Bainbridge Island with the specificity of someone who has walked the trails. Her work holds both the beauty and the fragility of the Pacific Northwest ecosystem — sanctuary as fact and sanctuary as something that requires maintenance.

View Biography → Britt Freda Mixed Media · Endangered Species · Natural History Freda works from scientific illustration traditions to build paintings of endangered and threatened species — the animals whose ecosystems overlap exactly with the landscapes Teresa Smith paints. Her work is the counter-argument: sanctuary for whom, and at what cost. View Biography → Opening Night What to expect whenyou register. 01 Two Bodies of Work August · Late Summer Smith and Freda in dialogue — the landscape and its inhabitants, the sanctuary and what it protects. 02 Conservation Framing Works with ecological weight Freda's work has been used in conservation contexts.