Ancient Medieval City (2025) Original Oil Painting by Tim Smith

Ancient Medieval City

A view from a hotel window over an old medieval city, glowing at the edges like a half-faded memory. It’s a place I never actually visited, and yet I remember it.

40 years ago I was on a train that stopped at San Gimignano. I felt the impulse to get off, and I didn’t. I’ve thought about that town ever since as though I had been there: the light, the towers, the view from a window I never looked out of. This small painting comes from that imagined memory, a city that almost was.

I wanted it to feel intimate and contained, like a recollection that has grown hazy but still glows. It’s an image borrowed from time, half memory and half invention, and it holds a quiet nostalgia for the road not taken and for the enduring beauty of old places.

In your space
Small and quiet, it suits a shelf, a desk, a bedside or a hallway, anywhere you’d like a little window onto somewhere else.

Details
Oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm. Supplied ready to hang with wire.

Materials used:

Oil paint

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 30 x 30 x 2cm (unframed) / 30 x 30cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed certificate of authenticity
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky