Title: The scent of oranges
 
Medium: Oil on canvas (unframed)
Size: 60 × 80 cm (1.5 cm deep)
Delivery: Excluded
 
The scent of oranges holds a moment in time where colour, light, and presence briefly suspend before settling. An idea that scent evokes a memory of a moment.
 
Oranges gather around the figure, their warmth held against cool air and softened light. A bird moves through the space at her shoulder, caught between flight and landing.
 
The work is less concerned with narrative than with sensation: the trace of brightness, the memory of warmth, and the pause before contact. The figure turns inward, withholding gesture and expression. Meaning emerges through proximity, colour relationships, and restrained movement.
 
Built through layered oil paint and visible brushwork, the surface carries subtle shifts in tone and temperature, allowing warmth and coolness to exist side by side. The painting invites slow looking and quiet contemplation.
 
A piece for collectors drawn to intimacy, restraint, and a moment that lingers rather than declares.
 
Music: Avril 14th | Aphex Twin