Sleeping with Ghosts

Original oil painting

By Timothy Colomer

Sleeping with Ghosts began as an artistic challenge.

Still relatively new to working in oils, Timothy Colomer wanted to push his technical abilities and experiment with a composition influenced by the dramatic light, darkness, and atmosphere associated with Caravaggio.

The goal was to create a presence that felt almost contradictory.

A ghost, but not something frightening.

Something mysterious and otherworldly, yet captivating.

Almost angelic.

The painting became an exercise in capturing something that seems physically present while simultaneously feeling as though it might disappear.

But as the work developed, Sleeping with Ghosts became more than a technical study.

The ghost became a metaphor.

Perhaps it is someone you have lost but still feel beside you.

Perhaps it is someone you miss.

Perhaps it is a secret that shares the room with you even when no one else knows it exists.

Or perhaps it is simply the lingering essence of a person, place, or moment that has never completely left.

The painting deliberately leaves that question unanswered.

Because most of us, in one way or another, sleep with ghosts.

We carry people who are no longer there. We carry memories. We carry longing, secrets, love, regret, and pieces of lives that exist now only within us.

The ghost in the painting belongs to Timothy Colomer.

What it represents belongs to the viewer.

Artwork Details

Sleeping with Ghosts began as an original oil painting by Timothy Colomer, created during a period in which the artist was deliberately developing his technical abilities with oil paint and exploring dramatic approaches to light, shadow, atmosphere, and the human figure.

Each print is professionally reproduced using high-quality digital printing to preserve the tonal range, subtle transitions, painterly texture, and atmospheric character of the original work.

Your print is produced as an 8 × 10 inch fine art print on premium archival paper, making it easy to frame and display.

Product Information

• Original oil painting by Timothy Colomer
• Fine art reproduction of the original artwork
• Printed size: 8 × 10 inches
• Museum-quality archival paper
• Professionally printed using high-resolution digital printing
• Printed in the United States
• Carefully packaged for shipping
• Part of Timothy Colomer's emotionally driven body of work