Tim Smith

Hang one of my paintings on your wall and you’ll see something different at breakfast than you do by lamplight.

I paint small, strange, glowing worlds: night skies, a blossom tree in my garden, half-remembered landscapes. Each one feels like a window, or a fragment of a bigger scene that carries on beyond the frame.

The glow comes from the surface. My works are painted on heavy weight canvas and sandpaper, and the rough texture catches and scatters light, so the colour seems to shine from within and shifts through the day. That’s hard to show in a still photograph, so I add a short film to each listing on YouTube - TimSmith-g6b - It shows the work more fully, capturing the light moving across it and the texture of the paint.

I’ve been painting for forty years, since I was bitten by the painting bug and never recovered. I studied Fine Art (BA and MFA), have exhibited in the UK and internationally, and my paintings now hang in private collections across the UK, Europe, the USA, Canada and Asia.

I never settle into one way of working. Paint does unexpected things as it settles and dries, and I chase that. If I can surprise myself, there’s a chance I’ll surprise you too.

Most of my work is intimate in scale, made for real homes: a...

Fine Art BA Hons Reading University
MFA Painting Newcastle University

2023 Ferens Open
2020 A painting in the window - a new work each day in lockdown
2019 Bodleian Library Oxford
2018 Self And Others, Neo Arts, Bolton
2017 Hessle Show
2017 Community Open Wilberforce Hull
2016 watercolours on the move, Denmark
2016 RA Summer Exhibition
2015 Humber to The Wash
2015 Ferens Open
2014 East Riding Open
2014 Pop Open, Hull
2014 Ferens Open
2014 Art Crasher Live San Francisco
2013 Running Watercolours Bergen
2013 Pop Live, St Ives
2012 New Paintings, Apple Gallery Cambridge
2011 Humber To Wash
2010 Ferens Open