Our Story
About the Artist
Clio Smith (b. 2001) is a fine artist raised in Northern California and based in New York. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 2023 and now lives and works in Manhattan. Clio creates realistic, colorful pieces based on what she sees and experiences in her life, detailing her emotions and memory observations of atmosphere and feeling. Having grown up in four countries, she infuses her cultural observations and international learnings into her different artistic creations.
How it Started
Clio has always enjoyed creating and sharing her art with people. In high school, she exhibited her works in galleries and museums across the United States. In college and presently, she has sold her handmade origami earrings through this e-commerce site and in boutiques along the west coast. She now frequents the art galleries in the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC and continues to create oil paintings in her studio and sell prints and commissioned pieces.
Creative Inspiration
Clio's handcrafted origami earrings are inspired by when she lived in Japan as an exchange student at age 16. She folded different origami with her friends there at her high school. Although they didn't speak the same language, they connected through folding paper into beautiful creations, and now Clio continues to share this cultural tradition.