David Smith is a Hawaii-born artist/printmaker who works in stone and photographic plate lithography as well as Photo-Etching. All prints are meticulously printed in a limited edition by the hand of the artist at the Honolulu Printmakers Workshop in Hawaii, and Artichoke Printworkshop in London.

Smith's art work has the nature of an unspecified narrative. All players are present, interacting, but the exact scenario of events is often left to the individual viewer to decipher. His images are dense, multi-layered, intricate prints created by the painstaking process of printing one image, one layer, one plate in succession, building a depth of surface which reflects the beauty of the printmaking process.

Smith received his BFA in Printmaking from the University of Hawaii and a Higher Diploma in Fine Arts from The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. At The Slade, Smith was under the tutelage of master printer Stanley Jones. Smith's work can be found in the permanent collections of the Honolulu Academy of Arts, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, The Hawaii State Art Museum, and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England.

In May of 2005 Smith was elected to the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers as an Associate Royal Etcher (ARE). He is the first Hawaii-born artist to receive this title.

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