A native of South, Betty Anglin Smith is active in the artistic community of Charleston, where she is known as a painter of Lowcountry scenes using a technique of large brush strokes and bold, vibrant colors. Her focus is expansive marsh vistas, beaches and waterways that are an integral part of the Lowcountry landscape with its mile-upon-mile of flat marshland - a challenge to her as an artist because it is a world seemingly void of the diagonal lines that artists use to balance a painting and add depth.

She has discovered that lines were to be found in the colorful shifting clouds and meandering creeks. Using large brushstrokes and eye-catching colors, Smith has worked to capture not just the physical nature of a place, but ...