Paul Smith

Paul Smith Are You Leaving For the Country?: New paintings 1-18 July 2021

Paul Smith’s latest paintings are edgeland landscapes dripping with the uncanny. They are landscapes of waiting, instantly recognisable to us all after a year of dwelling within such things. And while we do not see our human protagonists in these ‘empty’ spaces, there is a human presence. It lingers outside the frame, seen in their ruins: graffiti, or a gate left askew, or the eerie remains of a picnicking group. Their subject is the invisible point at which human and non-human intersect: The way things are, these paintings say, is not the way things have always been.