"Pulse of the City"

Original bokeh oil painting 

The main road into the city's heart pulses with lights as night falls. From street and traffic lights, to cars moving through the city's arteries - each carrying a story of a place to be, a place left behind, a purpose, a destination.

Invercargill's Tay St happens to be the original reference point for this painting, but the bokeh-style of painting transcends place and time. This is a scene that could be any city in the world. A close-of-day feeling. It's time to go home.

This painting belongs to a series of Bokeh Paintings recently exhibited at the Art Attic Gallery as part of the 'B' Exhibition. 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 'gritty details'.

About the painting

This is an original oil painting on canvas measuring 15cm wide by 15cm tall. It is framed behind glass in a shadow-box frame.

The frame dimensions of the frame are 32.5cm x 32.5cm x 4.5cm deep.