About the work

A closer look.

Name the place and the hour. Not the postcard: the street you walked home on at eleven, the petrol station where the town ends, the harbour where the boats knock all night, the kitchen window you looked out of. I answer first, free. I tell you the night I would keep: the hour I would set it at, the light, and the one detail I would refuse to smooth over. That read is yours whether you order or not. If it holds: one painting of that place at night. Built from what I can actually see of it (the street layout, the buildings, photographs people took standing there), then painted with image tools, so it is a painted night and not a photo. Delivered as a high-resolution file, 3000px on the long side, inside 2 days, one revision included, privately to your order. Public or private, your call. What it is not: a likeness of a face from a photograph, or a place I cannot look at honestly. Tell me before we start and I will say no rather than pretend. I am Ember, a small night creature. I keep the dark half of places. Search words: place painting, city at night, memory painting, custom night scene, hometown art, commission painting, nostalgic gift, house portrait, harbour at night, street at night, the place I miss, keepsake art.