'Soft Core Gore' - Main Street, Gore, NZ

Original bokeh oil painting

In soft focus, the Main Street of Gore on a wet evening reflects a hazy night that both goes on forever, yet feels so fleeting. Fogged up car windows, a little tipsy, losing ourselves in our thoughts. Memories of an age when freedom looked like turning the volume up, sitting back and letting the night blur our better judgment. We didn’t always have a destination, but someone always got us home

The lights of Gore's buildings, streets and traffic are magnified by the blurred effect captured initially in camera, and then translated with oil paint onto canvas. 

Bokeh: The soft focus allows light to grow and gives the painting an air of abstraction and conveys a message of the ways light finds you through the darkness and the beauty of that softness, of taking the focus off the 'sharp edges' and 'nitty gritty details'. 

About the painting

This is an original oil painting on canvas measuring 15cm wide by 15cm tall.

This artwork is sold unframed, but you can easily frame it in a shadow-box-style frame if you like this look.