Feuilles et Traces 1 by Pénélope Barbier oil painting on canvas

Feuilles et Traces 1 — Leaves and Traces — extends Pénélope Barbier's meditation on memory and imprint, on what remains once movement has passed. The title points to marks and residues, the subtle evidence of presence, and the work sits inside her larger practice of painting the natural world as a state of feeling. Rather than a landscape, it offers atmosphere and the slow surfacing of meaning.

Built in oil and natural pigments on canvas, the painting layers organic tonal variation across its surface, the pigments carrying the irregularity of natural processes — erosion, growth, decay. The oil accumulates slowly into something grounded and tactile. At 130 by 100 centimeters it reads less as an image than as an environment, drawing the viewer into its field of marks.

Oil and natural pigments on canvas · 2025 · 130 × 100 cm (51.2 × 39.4 in) · Unique · Ships mounted on a professional wooden frame · Certificate of authenticity included.