Bibi Smit (1965) is a Dutch glass artist. Her work explores the patterns and rhythms of movement in nature.
Her creative process is focused on the relationship between natural phenomena and the fluidity of hot glass,original experimentation and craftsmanship. By being able to control all processes, both in the hotshop and coldshop, her work shows an acute attention to detail and technique.

‘I have always been drawing as a child and from the age of ten onwards, I mostly have been water colouring. Looking back, I think watercolour has an innate transparency that glass also has. Hot glass for me seems to be alive, the way that it flows and moves, radiates light, it totally fascinates me. Glass to me is like wind; you don’t see wind, but you see what wind does. Everything is moving, nothing is static. And that is, for me, the essence of life’

1988 – 1989 Glass Assistant at Lindean Mill Glass, Galashiels, Scotland
1987 Trainee with Willem Heesen, Leerdam, The Netherlands
1985 – 1988 West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham, UK, B.A. Honours 3-D Design, Glass
1984 – 1985 West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham, UK, Foundation Course.
Bibi Smit began exhibiting her work from 1990, has had numerous solo and group shows at art fairs, museums and galleries, throughout The Netherlands, across Europe and America and her work is held in Public and Private Art Collections Worldwide.

2024 – Galerie Année