Paul Smith’s new paintings come from his time exploring George Eliot’s legacy in Nuneaton, as part of the writer’s bicentenary, and reflects her understanding of modern English life as being illustrated by the psychology of it’s marginalia.

In his edgelands, Smith finds the haunting beauty of life in an England of suburban landscapes - places where the delicate balances that describe the ethereal it’s of Englishness itself are pushed, and push back.