Its own room
Life At The Pond
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.
Set your screen once. Hold a bank card against the screen and slide until the orange outline matches its width.
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 most abstract painting in Smith's Sanctuary group and the one that gives up the most description. A pale lavender and blue mass turns at the centre — water, or the sky in water — ringed by dark twisting forms in oxblood, olive and rust that could be branches or could be reflection. Hot red and orange collect along the bottom edge and refuse to resolve into anything. The brushwork is faster here than in her forest interiors, the strokes shorter and more agitated. She has painted the pond as a vortex rather than a surface, and left the viewer to decide how much of it is above the water.
The Authenticity Record
| View | Made from | Processing |
|---|---|---|
| The whole work | Gallery photograph of the work | None beyond resizing for the web |
| Deep zoom, loupe and true size | The artist's own full-resolution photograph | Orientation from the camera; resized only if over 6000 px; nothing else changed |
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
MediumOil on canvas
Size48″ h × 36″ w
Price$4,800