London-based painter was David Brian Smith born into a Shropshire farming family. Much of his work is informed by the experience of living on a farm, with a number of his latest paintings featuring the recurring image of a shepherd tending his flock. His paintings offer a glimpse into an alternative world, the English countryside being transformed into a trippy patchwork of candy-coloured sheep and psychedelic skies. A bowed shepherd stands rooted to the spot, a sober, immovable figure in a world of madness. Smith’s paintings can be viewed, in part, as a response to the changing world that leaves his protagonists, be they shepherds or missionaries, isolated and lost in fizzing colours, emotionally and figuratively adrift in a landscape that is both recognisable and alien.