Angela Gaffney-Smith is an artist of the Catskills. She was born in England in 1957 and became a U.S. citizen in 1972. Angela received a B.A. in Art History and Visual Arts from SUNY New Paltz. Gaffney-Smith uses two distinct mediums to convey her connection to the Catskill Mountains and Hudson River. “With over thirty years of water media experience, I use transparent watercolor to capture the light of forest, streams, rocks & storms in the Hudson Valley Region. Watercolor has been a constant medium in my life. Inspired by my Irish heritage and the Native American stone piles in the Catskills, I began constructing bluestone cairns over 12 years ago ranging from 2 inches to 7 feet tall using stone from our own quarry rubble. These cairns are vessels for thoughts and images and often contain meaningful relics of people and places. They begin with an infinite circle at the base and wind upward to a point of air and light. The Path, was part of the juried Miniature Monumental Exhibition at the Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI. February 2023. A Thousand Reasons Why was one of 81 out of 561 submissions chosen for the Made in NY Exhibition at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, NY March 2023. My bluestone, watercolors and collage are in private collections in the U.S. and Ireland. The five foot tall bluestone sculpture, Ringneck, 2020, marks the entrance to the nature trail at the Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, NY.”