11/21/2025
Only a few days left to catch David Brian Smith’s () solo exhibition, “All Around the Wrekin”, on view in Miami Beach through November 22
1910 Alton Rd
Miami Beach, FL
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Smith’s large-scale canvases—painted on heavily woven herringbone linen in a nod to his family’s heritage—evoke the spirit of Norwich School painters, yet are re-envisioned through a hallucinatory, technicolor lens. The artist’s compositions are rich with narrative and detail: tiny figures on horseback traverse fields, multicolored animals graze beneath iridescent skies, and miniature farmhouses rest among rolling hills. These scenes hover between reality and reverie, merging personal memory with myth and folklore. Smith’s use of transparent and opaque layers of oil paint, often combined with gold and silver leaf, give his surfaces an ethereal luminosity, transforming the familiar English countryside into something at once nostalgic and transcendent.