Its own room

A Path In

Teresa Smith · Oil on canvas · 48″ h × 36″ w

Nothing here has been enhanced. Everything you see is derived from the object — the record below says exactly how each view was made.

A Path In by Teresa Smith
Set your screen once. Hold a bank card against the screen and slide until the orange outline matches its width.

This is the photograph at true size, for placing it in your room with your phone. Its sides and back will appear here after the studio capture — we will not invent them.

The surface under moving light

This view is built only from real photographs of the work, each lit from a different angle, so you can move the light yourself and watch the real surface answer. It is being captured in the studio and will appear here. Until then we show nothing rather than an imitation.

“I paint an island as sanctuary.”— Teresa Smith

A path runs in between two stands of fir and stops being a path about a third of the way up, where the light takes over. Smith lays the boughs as thick curved strokes of prussian and teal, each one a single loaded pass that keeps its edge — no blending, no attempt at needle or twig. The trunks are burnt sienna verticals dropped straight through. Everything dark is arranged around a pale cream aperture at the centre, and the painting works because that opening is left almost bare while the framing is worked heavily. It is a composition about wanting to get to the other end.

The Authenticity Record

ViewMade fromProcessing
The whole work, deep zoom, loupe, true sizeGallery photograph of the workNone beyond resizing for the web
Place it in your room (AR)The gallery photograph set at the work's recorded true sizeA flat photograph at true scale for placement - not a 3D scan; you cannot see its sides until the studio capture

Nothing on this page is retouched, relit in software or generated. A full studio capture of this work is scheduled.

ArtistTeresa Smith
MediumOil on canvas
Size48″ h × 36″ w
Price$4,800
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