Summary • David Brian Smith’s All around the Wrekin exhibition explores English pastoral traditions through luminous, surrealistic landscapes • Works such as "Another Dream" and "A Dragons Eye" combine oil and gold leaf on herringbone linen • On view at Ross + Kramer until November 22, 2025

London-based contemporary artist David Brian Smith’s latest exhibition at Ross + Kramer Gallery is titled All around the Wrekin. The show presents a series of luminous new landscapes that merge memory, folklore and ancestral heritage into richly symbolic compositions. The title itself references a Midlands expression meaning “to take the long way around,” a fitting metaphor for Smith’s winding journey through personal history and imaginative reinterpretation of rural life.

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