David Brian Smith Stages Theatrical Landscapes in Luminous New Exhibition

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David Brian Smith's latest series, 'All About the Wrekin,' transforms the pastoral into the performative. His luminous paintings stage the English countryside as a dramatic protagonist, bathed in a glowing, almost supernatural light.Smith builds up thin glazes of oil paint to achieve a radiant depth, capturing the ethereal quality of the magic hour. He overlays these vistas with intricate, rhythmic patterns that vibrate across fields and skies, evoking textiles and symbolic cycles of memory and heritage.The 'Wrekin' hill in Shropshire is abstracted into a recurring icon, a silent witness to history. Moving beyond traditional landscape, Smith's work operates as symbolic storytelling, where color and pattern convey narrative. Each canvas invites the viewer to read the land as an emotional script, a powerful story told through the force of visual poetry.

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