Its own room

Cathedral 18

Teresa Smith · Oil on Canvas · 40″ h × 30″ w × 2″ d

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

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

The hottest painting Smith has here. Trunks in rust and crimson — not her usual burnt sienna but a red pushed almost to cadmium — stand against a ground of deep blue-violet, with a burst of cream-white light breaking through at the centre. The complementary contrast is extreme and she does nothing to soften it. Teal boughs cross the top. The red trunks are laid in long unbroken strokes that read as drawn rather than painted, so the picture has a linear armature holding all that colour in place. Cathedral is not an overstatement here.

The Authenticity Record

View	Made from	Processing
The whole work, deep zoom, loupe, true size	Gallery photograph of the work	None beyond resizing for the web
Place it in your room (AR)	The gallery photograph set at the work's recorded true size	A 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
Size40″ h × 30″ w × 2″ d
Price$3,300

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