David M. Smith

“Ways of Seeing” – An Exhibition of Landscape Paintings

September 3 – 26, 2020

Opening Reception: at the time of posting, it is uncertain whether the Gallery will be allowed to host an opening reception for David due to physical distancing requirements.  Please check back here for an update.

Co Sponsors: Ernst Grell & Leilah Ward, and Tom & Mary Robinson

The Art Gallery of Bancroft enthusiastically welcomes Apsley artist David M. Smith as the featured artist in September.  Some may recall that David was awarded the Boyer Auto Group Best-in-Show honour for his watercolour “Wisdom of the Wood” in the AGB’s 2019 Annual Juried Exhibition.

About the Exhibition

My current paintings  explores scene accompanied with poems written by myself, they are written in either a playful, imaginative or thought provoking way, encouraging the viewer to interpret the land and its objects in a different way through the paintings and poems.  The poems will be framed with a print background of the painting.

    "After the Rain"

After the Rain

It doesn't talk to you

Listen to the way it feels

Listen hard and you will hear it

About the Artist

David has always found a deep magic and beauty in everything that he looks at examining the movement of light and shadow and the colour that moves through the forms that he interprets through his painting. He has always been involved in drawing and painting as far back as he can remember. Watching his mother paint as a young boy and having other relatives who also painted left him with a desire to take up the craft himself. He first began drawing at a very young age then moved to working in watercolour at the age of 12, he later added acrylic and oil to his interpretive palette.  He worked for 36 years in advertising creating designs and colour retouching work for many different clients and brings these disciplines into his paintings. As a full time painter now, his work continues to grow and David now has the time and energy to pursue his lifelong passion painting.

   "Lost and Found"

Lost and Found

The full moon,the night sky cracks apart

Being uprooted, now lost

Unaware of what now will be found

Artist Statement

My paintings explore the rhythms and patterns that occur within a landscape, focusing on the movement of light and the movement of colour representing the different incarnations of the land.

I work in three different mediums, watercolour, acrylic and recently oil. I work in these three mediums as scenes tend to lend themselves to one or the other. My current work explores a scene accompanied with poems written by myself, they are written in either a playful, imaginative or thought provoking way allowing the viewer to experience the visual in a different way.

   "Talk to Others"

Talk to Others

I am told you talk to others

through your roots

Like we do

"There's a Hill"

There's a Hill

There's a hill I want to go up
There's a thing I'm looking for

Is it open to all who see that way