Australian-born artist Bianca Smith is based in London, where she works from a gallery and studio in Battersea. A fine arts graduate, she has developed a practice across painting and commissioned work for private interiors. Her subjects include the female figure, animals and forms drawn from nature, translated through an approach informed by abstraction and Cubism.

Smith uses line to hold a composition together, often placing fine dark contours over broader areas of colour. Recognisable subjects remain within the image, but their shapes are simplified, stretched or brought into unexpected relationships. This balance between structure and tenderness is particularly evident in her figurative work.

Mother Holding Her Baby Bear, dated 2022, brings this language to a scene of maternal closeness. The work is recorded as oil on linen in the collection listing.