For Linwood, art is oxygen. Painting is Palmer Linwood Smith’s first love. His figurative and landscape portraits originally turned heads, but Linwood is not one to stand still. Today, Linwood is known for his modern abstract paintings.
A true master of mixed media, Linwood experiments with acrylic, oil, watercolor, pastel, pencil and even collaging found objects in a diverse, intriguing and highly collectible body of work.
Linwood explains, “I use color, pattern and texture to create movement on a canvas. My work is very kinetic. Chaos gives way to joy. Just like life.”
Painting is Linwood’s passion. It shows on every canvas. But, he’s got an alter-ego too. The artist Linwood is South + English’s own Palmer Smith. Artist, furniture designer, interior designer, showroom designer and curator of the good life, Palmer Linwood is a true creative multi-hyphenate.
How to make sense of it all? Life, experiences, relationships, serendipity, timing, missteps, leaps forward, bereavement, and joy. Art is the method, the solution and the revelation for artist DJE.
The artist explains, “Art is my way of externalizing how life seems to me as I look back on it and think about the energy of the people, the different periods, extreme changes, stagnations, successes and failures.”
DJE original art is an expression of these journeys, using shape, pattern, color and texture as a symbolic interpretation of how things felt at the time, a celebration of understanding. For DJE, the process of creation is path for personal understanding and clarity. If the art speaks to the viewer, if it captures your imagination, raises questions, evokes emotion, one man’s process may enlighten yours. In this way, art is personal and transcendent.
DJE original art embraces a material mix. Wood, fabric, and plaster on canvas morph in interesting combinations of form and color. Subject matter is abstract and familiar. Geometries are essential. Nothing feels static. All forms are dimensional.
“I know my life and many others around me,” explains DJE, “but they are all unique and a bit inscrutable. Creating physical interpretations – making art – simply fascinates me.”