Art by Paul S Smith

These are my fine art paintings specialising in multi-media representations of countryside, seas, skys, industrial decay and the male form. For interior design, art galleries, art collectors, gay community.
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First Light
Barbed wire and fencing is a universal symbol. But mine is broken and finished with - and it's morning. Today is a new dawn. An optimistic picture.
Lancaster Gate, London
While living in near Hyde Park, London this dramatic sky with a church steeple peeking over a building site corrugated fence caught my eye. The fence is more than it seems.
Flagged
It's great the way some fabrics flow shift and fold - especially flags. I hope this one doesn't turn out to belong ro someone.
Window
One day there was a piece of corrugated pvc lying on the studio floor with the sun streaming in a casting colourful shadows which I’ve exaggerated and increased the intensity.
Corrosive Pink
I have been fascinated (all right obsessed) with corrugated iron for decades because of the possibilities of texture, contrasted with colours and the effect of changing light across a 3D surface. More recently I have become excited by the use of intense pigments pioneered by Anish Kapoor in particular and produced a complex mutimedia construction which is nevertheless of similar dimensions to an ordinary oil painting.
Queen Hapshetsut
I created this from the imagery I had access to. The heiroglyphics are real but I’ve rearranged them together to suit the composition. And, like many of my paintings, I like to think that you are imagining something splendid and exciting happening just below.
Sydney Harbour
When I lived in Sydney we sometimes went yachting in the harbour. I began photographing patches of water and became intrigued by the variety of shapes lines and colours.
First Light
First Light
Theodosius
I think this is one of the best examples of my work combing real cloth and architectural features with an oil painting to create a composite artwork.
Inferno
When I was small in Australia I was dragged out of bed, shoved in the car and driven away and as I looked back all I could see was a wall of flame. It's stayed with me ever since
Darkest Hour (Dyptich)
While these were not intended as a pair, when completed it seemed obvious they had to be. mostly they are an attempt to get the most vivid colours I could possibly achieve.
Transformer
The practical demands of industrial design often produce elegantly designed objects that sit well in the natural environment.
Lone - Breckland Pine
Scots pines are everywhere in Norfolk and their often distorted shapes silhouetted against the skyline. Usually they're in groups but this sad one seems to have got lost