Michael Smith is a poet, an artist who is present in the world, and whose restless curiosity about life and art has pulled him into a rigorous investigation of land, light, water and air, both real and imagined. The result of that investigation has produced some of the most remarkable landscape paintings this country has ever seen. With this body of new work – anchored with six major paintings on view for the first time in Canada, Michael Smith challenges his vision by exploring the range and possibilities of collage, and literally “cutting” into his decades-long painting practice to create some of the most materially powerful and visually engaging works of his career.