His art usually explores various processes of painterly abstraction. He is especially good at capturing memories of the natural world and enjoys using nature for inspiration. One of his most famous collection of paintings were his 2011 abstractions known as rheRain Paintings.These were created by spraying fire extinguishers filled with pain at the canvas for generate an original impact and effect. More recently, in 2014, Smith produced Tigris, which was a show of eleven camouflage patterned paintings that were decidedly abstract in nature. His brushstrokes are now often very loose and especially effective in painting rivers. Tigris was about an ancient body of waters. Less