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This is the fifth solo exhibition for Michael Smith at the Michael Gibson Gallery. Michael Smith’s landscape paintings investigate the relationship between image and abstraction. Interested in illusions of illuminated space, he explores how light can be both incidental and instrumental in painting. Using an expressive impasto, Smith creates a visual language that tells a history of moments where atmospheric conditions have made claims on particular places.

The new works included in “Fugitive Ground”, reference striking natural phenomena, namely, familiar places visited in England, forests …