La Balsa “Infancia de verano” Original Painting by Nuria Oliva

La Balsa "Infancia de verano" — the raft, "summer childhood" — turns Nuria Oliva's memory-and-home practice toward childhood itself. The subtitle sets it among her most personal work, close in spirit to Recolectar y cocinar con la Abuela and the Piezas de lo que somos series, where family and remembered ritual are the real material. Summer, here, is a place the painting returns to rather than describes.

The work is oil on raw cotton canvas at 116 by 73 cm, an upright format. Left raw, the cotton keeps a warm, unbleached ground that the oil sits into rather than covers, and the vertical composition gives the scene a sense of looking up or back — memory framed tall, the way a child's-eye view tends to be.

Oil on raw cotton canvas · 2024 · 116 × 73 cm (45.67 × 28.74 in) · Unique · Mounted on a professional wooden frame · Certificate of authenticity included.