Oil on linen (2020). Landscape 1 is a large oil painting picturing an imaginary abstract landscape. In the top half of the painting, the earthy greenish shapes and colours evoke mountains, above which a structured sky displays the tones of a late afternoon or early morning. The bottom half of the painting recalls a calm lake, in which the landscape is mirrored, but not quite. Lines and colours play with our interpretation, infusing the mind with contemplation and memories of loved places.

Lenclos is a French painter who lives and works in London. She studied at the Royal College of Art and Camberwell College of Art. Her work is centred around three main themes: urban landscapes, geometric abstracts and trees. All have in common her unique sense of lines, light and colour.

Lenclos' collection of geometric abstract paintings, especially created for Linley's, takes inspiration from the natural world: sea, sky, landscapes. A brief encounter with a specific light and set of colours seen in the natural world provokes in Lenclos an abstract interpretation focussing on the mood or emotion of that moment.

Marie Lenclos lets her intuition guide the initial drawing, where dynamic lines are traced with ink on the linen surface. Once the structure is drawn, the painting comes to life through Lenclos' superb sense of colour. She paints free hand, letting the brush caress the canvas to create echoing gradients of colour from which a landscape slowly emerges.

This painting is framed in a modernist inspired bespoke walnut tray frame.

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Dimensions: W1520 x H1001mm

Dimensions:
W1520mm H1001mm