Vues romancées de 1970 #1

1970 Romanticized Views is a small set of painted vignettes set somewhere between Provence and the Côte d'Azur, in a summer that never quite happened. The series leans into the sun-warmed palette of seventies cinema — coral, ochre, pool-tile turquoise, the soft chalk blue of a hot sky — and the unhurried staging of David Hockney's terraces and Slim Aarons' poolside Europe. Figures stand half-turned, gazes drifting toward distant ridges; architecture is reduced to a handrail, a pool edge, the corner of a villa roof. We treat each scene as a still from a film no one finished. The brushwork is intentionally clean, almost graphic, with a flatness that recalls postcards and travel posters of the era. Across the series, the through-line is that quiet ten-second pause between cocktails and conversation, when the landscape does the talking. These pieces are made for rooms that already have warmth in them — terracotta floors, linen curtains, a worn leather chair — and want a window onto a holiday that lives entirely in memory.