Festivals (2025) Original Oil Painting by Tim Smith

Festivals

A summer night of music, light and possibility, painted from the imagination. Deep purples and midnight blues fill the upper part of the canvas, while glowing patches of red, orange and yellow suggest stage lights and lanterns. Below, a scatter of bright flecks of colour sparkles like a crowd, confetti or wildflowers in the dusk.

I’ve never actually been to a festival, but I love the atmosphere of a summer night filled with music and light. This painting explores that imagined space: the romance of a warm evening, the energy of an event that stays in your mind long after it’s over, and the fleeting sense that something extraordinary, even love, might happen.

It’s less about the literal experience than about the feeling of anticipation and connection that festivals represent. It’s a memory of something I’ve never lived but somehow know, a kind of collective nostalgia for summer nights that belong to everyone.

In your space
Square and richly textured, it brings colour and energy to a living room, bedroom or hallway, and rewards close looking, with thick, layered paint and the weave of the canvas showing through.

Details
Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 cm. unframed - ready to hang.

Materials used:

Oil paint

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 30 x 30 x 1cm (unframed) / 30 x 30cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed certificate of authenticity
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky