Southwest

An imagined Dartmoor landscape — where Romantic storytelling and memory meet in rough light and texture.
Southwest is part of a series exploring places I’ve long wanted to visit but never quite reached — landscapes imagined or remembered from books, stories, and half-formed memories. Painted on rough grade sandpaper, the surface gives the image a tactile warmth, with a 1.5 cm sandpaper border that frames the work from within.
This piece draws on the rocks and tors of Dartmoor, a landscape that has always fascinated me through the lens of Romantic literature and storytelling — wild, mysterious, and enduring. It reflects on the pull of certain places, the sense of familiarity without experience, and how imagination can fill the spaces left by time and missed chances.

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About the artist

tim smith

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Tim's work is driven by a fascination with the changing world, contemporary culture and the history of art. These are often mixed together in what he wants to be a spontaneous blend of images rich in cultural references, held together by passages of pure painting and lyrical colour in a "new representationalism"