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Of the selection of paintings presented in Everyday Life, Home is arguably the piece that most explicitly represents Smith’s engagement with the British folk art tradition. Inviting us into the charming perspectiveless space of a painter like Alfred Wallis, Smith evokes the idea, held by pivotal artists such as John Piper and Paul Nash, that the forms of our national landscape have given rise to distinctively English ways of visualising the world. The simplistically painted house and trees suggest a sense of untroubled security and contentment, while the road which snakes up the right hand side of the composition towards an uncertain horizon, suggests that the rest of the world can wait until tomorrow.