David Brian Smith Visionary Painter of English Landscape at Painter’s Painters Exhibition Saatchi Gallery

2David Brian Smith Great Expectations – Wow 2010 Oil on herringbone linen 180 x 150 cm

2The British landscape has often been plundered to create imagery of a ‘golden age’ for war time propaganda. While the certainties and place of the land in producing the nation’s character has never been in greater question, Smith’s painting are filled with an immersive reverie of place and optimistic discovery.

3David Brian Smith My Soul Hath A Remembrance And Is Humbled In Me – II 2011 Oil on herringbone linen 180 x 150 cm

2In a thoroughly contemporary language of brilliant colours, luminosity and dynamic perspectives the public discovers a new conception of the British landscape. The radical translation suggest a new kind of spirituality and series of associations through the painterly material encounter.

3Returning in this show to explore the regular motifs of a clipping of a shepherd from a found Daily Express’s 1933 Armistice Issue and a photograph of his missionary great-grandfather sitting on a giant ant hill in India, fleshing out deeper registers of each repeated image.

4David Brian Smith Ant Hill 2015 Oil and gold leaf on linen 280 x 220 cm

2The work on show, bridges a stylistic shift between detailed crystalline light to a freer, looser and gloopy experimental use of material. Yet Signature to the paintings is a

3layering of different painterly languages, the written word (sometimes hidden), and an incorporation of the herring bone weave into the composition.

4Til 28th Feb

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