River Seine: Reflections

Acrylic and collage on board

This work draws on the atmosphere of the Seine, but it is less a depiction of place than a reconstruction of sensation. A band of luminous yellow sky presses against a dark treeline, while fragments of architecture gather along the water’s edge. Reflections dissolve into saturated passages of crimson, rose and violet, so that river and memory merge.

Collaged elements — printed text, patterned scraps, architectural silhouettes — are embedded within translucent layers of paint. The surface alternates between control and improvisation: scraped passages sit beside finely drawn structures. The village appears both assembled and dissolving, suggesting how cities live within us long after we leave them.

The painting operates like a palimpsest: landscape, recollection and process layered into a single reflective field.