Its own room

Forest Grove

Teresa Smith · Oil on canvas · 30″ h × 40″ w

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

Forest Grove 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

Smith's most characteristic structure: a dark frame of fir boughs at the upper corners opening onto a bright valley that recedes in bands of sap green, olive and pale yellow to a thin blue sky. Two sienna trunks hold the right side and stop the composition from drifting. The boughs along the top are painted as separate teal strokes with white ground visible between them, so the canopy reads as pattern near the eye and the distance stays soft — the whole depth of the picture is carried by that one decision. Little is described in detail. The recession is entirely a matter of temperature.

The Authenticity Record

ViewMade fromProcessing
The whole workGallery photograph of the workNone beyond resizing for the web
Deep zoom, loupe and true sizeThe artist's own full-resolution photographOrientation from the camera; resized only if over 6000 px; nothing else changed
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
Size30″ h × 40″ w
Price$3,500
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