Lacemaker (2025) Original Acrylic Painting by Tim Smith

Lacemaker

A warm wash of apricot and peach fills the right of the canvas, while the left glows with dense, jewel-like colour (reds, pinks, greens and deep blues) and fine drawn lines trailing through it like threads. Soft, scuffed edges and traces of colour around the border give it a handmade, weathered feel.

I’ve always loved The Lacemaker by Vermeer, such a small, clever painting, and so perfectly balanced. What fascinates me most is the abstract spill of red lace in the bottom left, the way it seems to pour forward, alive with energy and colour. It’s an astonishing passage of painting: minimal, fluid and full of life.

This work isn’t a reproduction of Vermeer’s painting. It’s a love letter to his precision, restraint and the beauty of his touch, and a personal reflection on how something so quiet can hold such intensity.

In your space
At 37 x 42 cm it suits a hallway, a bedroom, a desk or a gallery wall, and a painting this layered keeps offering something new each time you look.

Details
Acrylic on canvas, 37 x 42 cm. Unframed. Ready to hang with supplied wire.

Materials used:

Acrylic

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 37 x 42 x 2cm (unframed) / 37 x 42cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed certificate of authenticity
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: People and portraits