Wanaka - Helwick St at night

Original bokeh oil painting

In soft focus, looking down Helwick St, Wanaka, New Zealand towards the lake. The view is lit with orbs of light spilling from shops, traffic and street lights - and the distant light of the setting sun. These lights 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 unframed original oil painting on canvas measuring 15cm wide by 15cm tall.

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