Tim Smith

I make small, luminous paintings that sit between landscape and constellation—night gardens, branching forms, and flickers of light that feel part earthly, part celestial. Many works are painted on sandpaper; the abrasive surface catches and scatters light, giving the colour a rough glow and a shifting depth.

I’m drawn to edges, borders and apertures—the way a painting can feel like a window, a rug, or a fragment of a larger scene continuing beyond the frame. My influences range from painting and museums to mythology, night skies, comics, and remembered places, but the aim is always the same: to make an ambiguous space that holds your attention and changes as the light changes.

I have exhibited nationally and internationally, and my work is held in private collections in the UK, Europe, the USA, Canada and Asia.

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