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The cage of frills, broken by a celestial spirit of salvation.There comes a moment when we stop falling. It is our burdens that fall in our place.The fabrics slip away. Appearances recede.Cloud after cloud, the sky clears, leaving room for freedom.<ul><li>Oil painting on stretched canvas, 120 x 40 cm. 2022.</li></ul>

Délestage

" There are storms that stir neither sea nor sky. They are born deep within us, invisible and silent, until one day they carry away our certainties like autumn leaves. Then comes the moment of surrender. The body no longer struggles. It yields to the current. Hair becomes a flowing tide, colours dissolve into one another, and the world begins to turn without meeting resistance. The maelstrom is no longer a threat. It becomes a transformation. There are storms we do not emerge from unscathed.We emerge from them changed."<ul><li>Oil on linen canvas - 92x73 cm - 2024.</li></ul>

Maelström

" Self-taught by choice as much as by temperament, I have built my artistic world beyond the boundaries of formal training, guided by curiosity, perseverance, and an unwavering commitment to my own work.My paintings are less about depicting reality than revealing its inner echoes.Light, colour, curves, and the feminine presence lie at the heart of my work.More recently, each painting has been accompanied by a poem—not to explain it, but to give it another voice.Painting and writing then enter into a quiet dialogue, inviting each viewer to discover a story of their own."

The Relax series captures quiet moments of rest and surrender—where the body unwinds and the mind steps away from the noise. Reclining, seated, reflective—the figures appear caught in a gentle pause.Isabel Mahe uses natural poses, soft textures, and soothing palettes to express ease and release.

" Each painting invites us to slow down, breathe, and simply be."

As the sun sinks toward the horizon, the garments cease to be mere laundry. They become veils, lace blossoms, fragments of light suspended between earth and sky. This is the hour when the visitors arrive. Three squirrels leap lightly from line to line with the effortless grace of creatures untouched by notions of modesty or possession. They wander through this airy garden as though it were a forest in bloom, taking nothing with them but the joy of movement. In the softness of evening, the intimate is offered to the breeze with a sense of innocence rediscovered. Dresses, corsets and delicate lace no longer speak of those who once wore them; instead, they become the language of a quiet freedom, one that only twilight can reveal. Night slowly falls. The visitors disappear. All that remains is the whisper of the wind through the fabric, as though it alone remembers the secret of their passing.<ul><li>Oil painting on stretched canvas, 120 x 40 cm. 2022.</li></ul>

Visitors at dusk

Isabel Mahe’s Portrait series highlights the intimacy of a gaze, the uniqueness of a face, and the trace of emotion left in a fleeting moment.Each piece captures something fragile, vibrant, and sincere. Through subtle contrasts, delicate textures, and expressive color choices, Mahé explores the inner lives of her subjects.It’s not just about portraying a likeness—but revealing a presence, a vulnerability, a quiet spark.

" These portraits speak through silence."

Isabel Mahe captures everyday scenes infused with subtle emotion and layered storytelling. Her subjects—often women in reflective or intimate moments—are portrayed with expressive brushwork and rich, contrasting tones.Through the use of overlapping textures and translucent color fields, Mahe invites viewers to look beyond the surface.These pieces blend the figurative with the abstract, revealing not just an external gesture, but a glimpse into inner worlds.&lt;- Italian windowsOil painting on hardboard, 97 x 78 cm. 2026.

The Genre series

Nothing is hurried anymore.The wind no longer dries them.It cradles them.Somehow, the garments have found their brightness again.No trace of weariness.Gone, the day's tensions, the day's foam.What remains is the imprint of the one who wore them.<ul><li>Oil painting on stretched canvas. 120 x 40 cm. 2022.</li></ul>

Based in France a country renowned for its rich artistic heritage, Isabel Mahe offers a seamless online shopping experience, allowing art lovers to explore and purchase paintings from the comfort of their own home.<ul><li>We offer secure payment solutions via PayPal, but if you prefer to pay by bank transfer, please do not hesitate to request this by email.</li><li>Artworks are shipped worldwide free of charge, carefully packaged and insured.</li><li>Each work comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.</li></ul><h3>Direct sales</h3>What makes Isabel Mahe unique is her commitment to connecting with collectors within a vibrant online community.<ul><li>The works offered on this website are sold and shipped directly by Isabel Mahe.</li></ul>

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Exhibition of Alex Kats at the Guggenheim Museum

Title: Interior with Figures in a Picture Gallery Creator: Gonzales Coques Date: 1667-1672 Providing institution: Mauritshuis Aggregator: Dutch Collections for Europe Providing Country: Netherlands Public Domain Interior with Figures in a Picture Gallery by Gonzales Coques - Mauritshuis, Netherlands - Public Domain. https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_238

Title: Mass. WPA Art Project exhibit - Teaching Division, Massachusetts School of Art, May 11-May 23, 1940 Contributor: Federal Art Project Sponsor: United States. Works Progress Administration Sponsor: United States. Work Projects Administration Date: 1940 https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:kw52mz34w

Title: F[A]P Gallery, 77 Newbury Street, Boston, June 19-July 1, 1939 Contributor: Federal Art Project Sponsor: United States. Works Progress Administration Sponsor: United States. Work Projects Administration Date: 1939 https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:d791w5951

Title: Federal Art Gallery opening show, 77 Newbury Street, November 28-December 10, 1938 Contributor: Federal Art Project Sponsor: United States. Works Progress Administration Sponsor: United States. Work Projects Administration Date: 1938 https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:tb09mv65v

Title: F[A]P Gallery, 77 Newbury Street, Boston, June 19-July 1, 1939 Contributor: Federal Art Project Sponsor: United States. Works Progress Administration Sponsor: United States. Work Projects Administration Date: 1939 https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:5x21x5797

Title: Massachusetts WPA Art Project exhibition, Jordan Marsh Company, "This Work Pays Your Community" Week, May 20 to May 25 Contributor: Federal Art Project Sponsor: United States. Works Progress Administration Sponsor: United States. Work Projects Administration Date: [1940] https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:5d86rq04w

Title: Apelles Painting Campaspe Creator: Willem van Haecht Date: 1630 Providing institution: Mauritshuis Aggregator: Dutch Collections for Europe Providing Country: Netherlands Public Domain Apelles Painting Campaspe by Willem van Haecht - Mauritshuis, Netherlands - Public Domain. https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_266

A breathtaking view of the Julia and Hans Rausing Room inside The National Gallery in London, showcasing a stunning collection of classical paintings framed by the room's rich red walls and ornate gilded arches. The high glass ceiling floods the space with natural light, illuminating masterpieces from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Visitors admire the artwork, engaging in quiet contemplation and discussion in one of the world’s most renowned art museums.

" The symbolism rooted in the relaxed pose and opulent cushions evokes comfort in vulnerability. This painting is a celebration of personal intimacy, inviting reflection on our own comfort space."<ul><li>Oil painting on MDF panel (5 mm) fixed on wooden frame (thickness 1.5 cm). 80x40 cm - 2025. Ready to hang.</li></ul>

La Vie en Rose

" Appeasement, serenity of meditation. Soft colors and delicate shades express inner calm and spiritual connection, evoking the vibrations and harmony that emanate from meditation."<ul><li>Oil painting on 5mm plywood panel mounted on a wooden frame. 66x69 cm - 2025. Ready to hang, edges are left raw (light) wood.</li></ul>

What the wind carries away was perhaps no longer ours to carrySometimes, all it takes is a breath for what we thought indispensable to drift away, and for the essential to appear.The wind takes nothing. It reveals what was already free.<ul><li>Oil on linen canvas - 61x50 cm - 2025.</li></ul>

Carried by the Wind

We do not always follow the light.Sometimes, it is the light that finds us.And we know, without understanding,that we are, already, on our way.<ul><li>Oil on plywood - 120 x 60 cm - 2025.</li></ul>

Fascination

Some prayers need no words. They are born of a breath, a presence, a light. Sometimes, all it takes is to surrender for the light to find its way. It does not answer our calls. It answers our openness.<ul><li>Oil painting on linen canvas mounted on hardboard panel fixed on a frame. 92x73 cm - 2025.</li></ul>

Incantation

Some lights reveal nothing.They simply make us more alive.Sometimes, all it takes is to open our eyes.And sometimes, to close them and welcome all the light. <ul><li>Oil painting on hardboard panel, fixed on a wooden frame. Ready to hang without frame. The edges are painted sienna color (thickness 4 cm).</li><li>80 x 80 cm. 2025.</li></ul>

Full Sun

Sometimes the wind already knows our name.Then we stop resisting it.Our gestures grow lighter.Our thoughts loosen their grip.They simply move through the body.Like a breath. Like a flash of light. Like a dance no one is watching.Then movement becomes trust.And the body rediscovers the freedom it had never lost.<ul><li>Oil on linen canvas - 55x46 cm - 2025.</li></ul>

Whirl

The light comes from above.Not to judge. Not to rule.It simply falls, letting itself descend, unaware of its own strength.Yet its vitality is such that it intimidates even the darkness.<ul><li>Oil on linen canvas - 73x54 cm - 2025.</li></ul>

Zenith

A sun without warmth hovers above me,and below me, night covers the earth.But deep beneath the waters, light knows where to find us.De profundis clamavi.<ul><li>Oil on linen canvas - 81x54 cm - 2023.</li></ul>

De profundis clamavi

Some moments do not know they are happy.They run, they splash, they laugh.And only much later does the heart understand what it was living.<ul><li>Oil painting on stretched linen canvas - 73x54 cm - 2023.</li></ul>

Les feuilles mortes

Sometimes,it is enoughto let ourselves be carried.Like water.Like light.<ul><li>Oil painting on linen canvas stretched on a frame - 40x80 cm - 2024.</li><li>The white wooden frame has been sanded to bring out the light wood.</li></ul>

Living Water

Listen.The forest is singing.It whispers, murmurs, growls and grumbles; at times it hums, at times it purrs, resonates, or rings like distant bells.It lets us hear the wind breathing through the leaves and discern the songs of the birds that dwell within it.But if we linger until nightfall, we find ourselves listening more intently, waiting for the hoot of a nocturnal owl or the haunting howl of some wandering wolf.<ul><li>Oil painting on canvas - 92x73 cm - 2023.</li></ul>

Forest Song

The giant will never move.Yet something is coming to meet him.A hand.A glance.Five centuries have not been enough to cool the marble.Masterpieces do not live because they endure through time.They live because we continue to touch them—with our eyes... or with our hearts.<ul><li>Oil painting on linen canvas, 92 x 65 cm. 2023.</li></ul>

The Giant Marble

What do we find at the end of the road?We journey through life, our eyes veiled by illusion. By illusions.In the night, we search for the light.Sometimes a glimmer blossoms close beside us, settles, fragile as a butterfly, within reach of our hand, within reach of our sight.If we pay it no heed, it slowly fades with time, until it dies away in the darkness of indifference.<ul><li>Oil painting on linen canvas - 61 x 50 cm. 2024.</li><li>American box frame painted gold.</li></ul>

Journey to the end of the night

We never see a whole life.Only a window open onto a moment.A living moment,offered by life, without warning.<ul><li>Oil painting on wood - 113x48,5 cm - 2024.</li></ul>

La chatte à la voisine

A window is made to reveal what is happening on the other side.That is why it is transparent.Curtains may be added, wrought iron may reinforce it, yet one can still see through.One is allowed to look, with the utmost discretion.<ul><li>The wooden frame, a real window, with its fine metal bars, glass and hinges, gives a very realistic look to the painting.</li><li>Panel dimensions without frame: 61 x 38 x 0.2 cm. Dimensions with frame: 73 x 51 x 2.5 cm.</li></ul>

Through the window

Some presences remain behind a window.Not because they are hiding.But because a life can never be entirely seen.Some windows are not meant to be looked through.They are there to remind us that there is always an unseen part.Inside, light, warmth, and the soft, elusive curves quietly prevail.Outside, the cold night traces straight lines, spare and austere.Between the two, a pane of glass.Transparent.Yet never entirely crossed.<ul><li>Oil painting on linen canvas. 81 x 65 cm. 2023.</li></ul>

The woman across the street

Some lights illuminate only within.They do not drive the night away.They ease it. They soothe the shadows.They teach it, gently, to lighten our fears.<ul><li>Oil painting on linen canvas - 46 x 38 cm. 2024.</li></ul>

By Candlelight

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Some places preserve a secret.We pass through them, without seeing it.We wander there, unaware.Yet, something is watching. In silence.A staircase.A light.A figure, barely glimpsed.All it takes is to look up,to understand that some cities have never stopped believing in angels.<ul><li>Oil painting on canvas - 65x50 cm - 2024.</li></ul>

The Archangel of Montmartre

They shared the same childhood games, the same friends, the same schools.Partners in mischief, they sometimes plotted without anyone knowing. They still laugh about it.They confided in each other the stirrings of their first loves.They comforted one another through small heartaches and great sorrows. The tears dried long ago.They quarrelled, apologised, forgave.They did not follow the same paths. They drifted towards different tomorrows, before returning.They nurture secrets no one will ever know.When they meet again, they see the face of their youth once more.And they share what no one else can ever reach.Memories.<ul><li>Oil painting on canvas mounted on hardboard on a frame., 92 x 73 cm. 2026.</li></ul>

Korean Ladies

Some paths are meant to be climbed together.One step. Then another.Side by side. Day after day.Without haste, without effort.All it takes is a reassuring hand,close by,that does not seek to lead,but simply to walk beside.For the most beautiful pathsare not the ones we are shown.They are the ones we live together.<ul><li>Oil painting on canvas - 65x50 cm - 2024.</li><li>Black wooden frame</li></ul>

Montmartre Stairs

The sumo wrestler and the cat have some remarkable traits in common.Their talent for balancing is legendary, as is their tactical intelligence.Faster than a snake, and endowed with the precision of an eagle, they give their opponent no chance. Their lightning-fast attacks are explosive.As for their flexibility — need we even mention it? — it is proverbial. We marvel at the grace of their movements.However, if we value our dignity, we would be wise not to tickle them when it isn't cuddle time.That said, these natural feline abilities do not come naturally to the Japanese wrestler.It will take a human years of training, discipline, self-mastery to attain such perfection.And yet, there is one quality in which the tomcat could never equal the sumo wrestler: humility.<ul><li>Oil painting on plywood board. 57 x 57 x 0.5 cm. 2024.</li><li>Frame repainted matt black.</li></ul>

Sumo Cat

Before the sacred mountain, time slows. The giant challenges nothing. He carries. Nestled upon his shoulders lies a woman,light as a breath, surrendered to the trust of the sky. In that moment, strength no longer seeks to conquer; it becomes balance. Mount Fuji remains still. For centuries, it has watched the passing of the seasons,of men, of their struggles, of their dreams. Perhaps it knows that true strength liesnot in what we are able to lift,but in the gentleness with which we choose to carry it.<ul><li>Oil painting on MDF panel (3 mm) fixed on wooden frame. 1 x 1 m - 2023.</li></ul>

Ballad to Mount Fuji

A Japanese saying suggests that, when one is overwhelmed with work, one should “ask a cat for a helping hand.”Fair enough. One can always hope. The Japanese know that all too well.It is not the feline’s role to “lend a hand.” Whatever next?His purpose is simply to exist. To lounge in the warmth, waiting.Waiting for what? An opportunity? The right moment? Harmony.He has an acute sense of balance.Only the sumo wrestler can provide a counterweight, provided the balance beam is properly adjusted.<ul><li>Oil painting on linen canvas mounted on wood panel. 50 x 40 x 0.8 cm. 2024.</li><li>Matching frame.</li></ul>

Sumo's Cat

To leave. To resign. Sometimes, we long to head for the open sea.To escape to other places, distant lands, to run away.For a new world.But.Is there a better world?<ul><li>Oil painting on MDF panel - 55 x 38 cm - 2023.</li></ul>

The Call of the Sea

Immerse yourself in the vibrant colors of Seville with "Sevillanas," a captivating oil painting that captures the fluidity and passion of two dancers in a vibrant interplay of shadow and light. The artist's masterful brushstrokes depict their graceful movements and intense emotions, enhanced by a warm and inviting color palette.<ul><li>Oil painting on linen canvas, 80 x 60 cm. 2020.</li></ul>

Sevillanas

Rumba is not samba, nor tango, nor even cha-cha-cha. One should not get them confused.Samba is a celebration in Rio, while tango strikes a pose, intense and dramatic. As for cha-cha-cha, it is playful and lively.But rumba… Rumba… The dance of Love with a capital L.Sensual, it teases, provokes and sways its hips.It shoots knowing glances that would make Cupid’s arrows jealous.Eyes size each other up, bodies challenge one another in an elegant game of seduction. They pretend to confront each other before melting into one.So make no mistake. This is rumba.<ul><li>Oil painting on linen canvas. Ready to hang, the edges are painted in dark tone.</li><li>61 x 50 cm. 2022.</li></ul>

Rumba

The summer girls imagine that spring is eternal.That the seasons are long, and the years inexhaustible.But a time will come when time itself grows shorter, and skirts grow longer.<ul><li>Oil painting on canvas - 73x60 cm - 2022.</li></ul>

Summer Girls

We sometimes build impenetrable shelters.Certainties. Ramparts. Dikes against vulnerability.And yet, all it often takes is a little shared trust.One step in tune with another, one umbrella held together. The rain keeps falling.But it no longer falls between us.<ul><li>Oil painting on canvas - 73x54 cm - 2022.</li></ul>

Nuclear Umbrella

Some words seek neither truth nor lies. They travel in hushed voices, from one ear to another. They hint at a confidence, a secret that is no longer one. Truth be told, these conversations are never really about others. They reveal, despite themselves, what each person carries within.<ul><li>Oil painting on canvas.81x60 cm - 2022.</li></ul>

Gossiping

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" Human emotions confronted with the immensity of nature under the light of dawn. The delicacy of diluted turpentine oil allows me to play subtly with shades of pure, soft but contrasting colors. The light highlights the palpable tension and silent contemplation of the male figure."<ul><li>Oil painting on linen canvas 92 x 65 cm. 2024. </li></ul>

Aurora Australis

" The mysterious glow and intensity of emotions through the gaze of the green-eyed muse. Warm colors mingle with cool tones to envelop the figure in an aura of reverie and contemplation, evoking a presence that is both soothing and inspiring."<ul><li>Oil painting on wood 43 x 61 cm. 2024.</li></ul>

Green Eyed Muse

Welcoming the morning, toward the rising sun. Unmoving. Like a statue of wax. She has laid down the shadows. She has left them to the ghosts of the night. Waiting for an angel.<ul><li>Oil painting 50 x 70 cm on 5 mm wood panel, mounted on a wooden frame. Total thickness 30 mm. Hangs without a frame. The edges are painted, burnt umber color. 2025.</li></ul>

In the Rising Sun

Some journeys begin long before departure. They are born in a glance, in the hint of a smile, in that quiet curiosity that urges us beyond the horizon. Beneath her conical hat, she carries a little of Vietnam with her, as one carries the memory of a new light. The mountains fade into the mist, yet their presence lingers, suspended between sky and memory. Travel is not merely about discovering new landscapes. It is a quiet conversation with the world. It allows every country to leave within us a new colour, a silence, a different way of seeing life. And every homecoming already holds the promise of another departure.<ul><li>Oil painting on linen canvas 73 x 60 cm. 2025. </li></ul>

Visit Hanoi

There are more paths before us than we ever imagine. We fold them, one by one, with our hopes, our hesitations, and our memories. Though the paper boats remain still, the journey has already begun. Some will sink before ever leaving the shore. Others will carry us farther than we could have imagined. Perhaps life is much like that. A single sheet of paper in our hands.<ul><li>Oil painting on canvas - 46x38 cm - 2024.</li><li>Wooden frame</li></ul>

Origami

There are moments of happiness that ask for nothing more. Silence. A comfortable chair. The memory of a meal shared with others. Time slows to a gentle pause. Even our greatest ambitions sometimes fade before the simple pleasure of a moment fully savored. The rest can wait.<ul><li>Oil painting on linen canvas stretched on a frame. 81 x 65 cm. 2024. </li></ul>

Pata Negra

" The softness of the young woman's face, wrapped in a soft stole, evokes a sense of tranquility and deep introspection. Each brushstroke builds a rich texture, adding an emotional as well as a visual dimension. This painting is not just a portrait; it is a window into the dreams and aspirations hidden on the threshold of adulthood."<ul><li>Oil painting on MDF - 41 x 30 cm - 2024.</li><li>Matching wood frame, gold and off-white.</li></ul>

From the lofty height of 20

Before it is hunger, it is joy.With eyes closed, he savours the moment with the gravity of a sage and the delight of a child. Around him, the hanging hams become trophies, the poultry a promise, and the feast itself an art of living.True gourmandise is not about possessing more.It is about fully savouring what is already there.A good meal nourishes the soul as much as the body.<ul><li>Oil painting on linen canvas stretched on a frame. 81 x 65 cm. 2024.</li></ul>

Gargantua

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Abstract landscapes that invite viewers to explore mysterious and enchanting horizons beyond the visible.

Mystic Horizons

Delicate and vibrant floral paintings that celebrate the subtle beauty of nature’s blooms.

Magnolias on Light Blue Velvet Cloth Date: 1885–95 Artist: Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/100829/magnolias-on-light-blue-velvet-cloth

Floral Whispers

Some houses speak. Without opening their doors. All it takes is laundry drying in the sun to glimpse a life, the lives unfolding within. The walls hold the light. The linen, the memories.<ul><li>Oil painting on MDF panel, mounted on a wooden frame. 71 x 71 x 2.6 cm. 2025. </li></ul>

Benvenuti in Italia / Verona

Some windows know how to wait. Silence is never empty there. It still holds the sound of footsteps, the voices, the breeze drifting through the canals. Memory settles upon the walls, the shutters, the linen. And the house remembers.<ul><li>Oil painting on MDF panel fixed on a wooden frame. 71 x 71 x 2.6 cm. 2025.</li></ul>

Benvenuti in Italia / Venezia

The reds? Or The blacks? He wouldn't take sides. Innocent, spotless, dressed in white. The others had no need of his hesitation. Which one would be the fairest? That was for them to decide. Better to bring in all the washing. The storm, without waiting, had already chosen its side.<ul><li>Oil on stretched linen canvas, 65 x 50 x 2 cm. 2022.</li><li>The edges are painted black.</li></ul>

Jealousy 

Each can only discover the landscape within the reach of their gaze. Her horizon is manifestly far broader than the perspective of the one climbing the stairs below.<ul><li>Oil painting on hardboard (natural wood fibers) mounted on a wooden frame. 49,5 x 69,5 x 2,25 cm. 2025.</li></ul>

Panchira

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Oil painting on wood - 126 x 32 cm - 2020.

Everyone invents a little of everyone else's story.Words travel faster than footsteps.Yet, the one they speak about keeps walking.If she's at the heart of every conversation,She is the final note of the composition.<ul><li>Oil on wood 120 x 32 x 2 cm.</li><li>Satin varnish finish.</li><li>Offered frame: Black wooden box.</li></ul>

Every garment tells of a presence. Invisible.Beneath the same light. Beneath the caress of the wind. All of it sways with the same dignity. At first light. Ready for a new beginning.<ul><li>Oil painting on stretched canvas. 120 x 40 cm. 2022.</li></ul>

She's collected treasures since ancient times. The glittering, the golden, the gleaming. Faced with this new wonder, she is bewildered. The magpie begins to wonder " What secret has everyone been keeping from me? "<ul><li>Oil painting on stretched canvas. 120 x 40 cm. 2022.</li></ul>

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The last notes have faded away. Yet nothing is over. The instruments remain suspended, as though Schubert's Trout Quintet were still resonating long after the bows have fallen silent. She does not look at them. She listens to them from within. Some melodies never truly end. They continue to be lived.<ul><li>Oil painting on linen canvas stretched on a frame. 92x73 cm - 2023.</li></ul>

Trout Quintet

She has lain before Goya as one returns to an old friend. Two women. Two centuries. One shared silence. One is flesh. The other is paint. Both inhabit their bodies with the same quiet certainty. Perhaps great works of art do not travel through time. Perhaps they simply wait for the gaze that will recognize them.<ul><li>Oil painting on hardboard - 115x51,5 cm - 2023.</li></ul>

La Maja Desnuda

Love's Sweet Affliction There are wounds we never seek to heal. They remind us that we have loved. Resting in the light of an unhurried morning, she is not truly asleep. She is simply listening to the silence left by an absence—or perhaps to the lingering presence of a memory. The sheets still hold the warmth of happier moments. The light, meanwhile, asks no questions. Some afflictions ask for neither remedy nor forgetting. In time, they become a gentler way of loving life.<ul><li>Oil painting on MDF - 78x61 cm - 2023</li></ul>

Maladie d'Amour

Some eyes ask for neither answers nor consolation. Only to be welcomed. Colorsdo not always tell what the heart is going through.<ul><li>Oil painting on MDF panel (5 mm) fixed on wooden frame (thickness 1.5 cm). 80x40 cm - 2025. Ready to hang.</li></ul>

There comes a time when silence is no longer an absence. But a presence. Sometimes, all it takes is to dwell fully in the present moment. Nothing to conquer. Nothing to hold on to. Simply be.<ul><li>Oil painting on 5mm plywood panel mounted on a wooden frame. 66x69 cm - 2025. Ready to hang, edges are left raw (light) wood.</li></ul>

While the world goes on without us, there are still pages where time consents to stand still.<ul><li>Oil painting on wood panel (5 mm) mounted on a 1.5 cm thick wooden frame. 100x40 cm - 2025. Ready to hang.</li></ul>

A la recherche du temps perdu

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Some presences need no words. They shine. In silence. This silence is not empty. It is the space where light learns to speak.<ul><li>Oil painting on linen canvas - 65 x 54 cm. 2025.</li></ul><ul data-type="checkmark-bullet-list"><li data-type="checkmark-list-item">As a gift:</li></ul>Beautiful handcrafted frame, with filled corners (second hand).750 €

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