À Travers Le Verre 1 by Pénélope Barbier

À Travers Le Verre 1 — Through the Glass — sits within Pénélope Barbier's practice of painting the seasons and the natural world as states of feeling. Where her Automnes et fantômes and Couchers de Soleil et Cavaliers series hold memory and movement, this work turns to perception itself: vision filtered, softened, held at a slight remove. Barbier is less interested in a scene than in the atmosphere around it and what the eye supplies when the view is partial.

The painting is built in oil and natural pigments on canvas, a method that gives the surface organic variation and slow, layered depth. The natural pigments shift subtly across the field, lending a sense of fragility that suits the idea of looking through a transparent barrier. At 60 by 50 centimeters it stays intimate, rewarding the close viewing where its tonal transitions register.

Oil and natural pigments on canvas · 2025 · 60 × 50 cm (23.6 × 19.7 in) · Unique · Ships mounted on a professional wooden frame · Certificate of authenticity included.