In Le Lac Bleu, I invite a moment of stillness: a calm expanse of water, a subtle horizon, the quietude of reflection and sky meeting. The medium—oil and wax on card—serves both as material and metaphor: the wax acts as a veil and a carrier, preserving a fragile moment of clarity and calm, of subtle colour and mood.
 
While my other works often respond to the bushland and scrub of the inland terrain, here the focus is on water and reflective surface — a lake that lies like a mirror, both revealing and concealing. In selecting the card format (50 cm × 62 cm), I retain an intimate scale that allows for quiet contemplation, rather than the drama of sweeping panoramas.
 
The tones are hushed—blues, greys, muted greens, the faintest trace of light shifting across the surface. The work is less about depicting a specific lake and more about evoking the feeling of one: the stillness that descends in the early morning, the hush as the world pauses, the faint ripple or shift in light that reminds us of the passage of time. The waxed surface holds memory—of water, air, light—but also invites the viewer to lean in, to look at the subtle layering, the gesture of mark-making, the way the material meets the image.
 
My hope is that Le Lac Bleu becomes a place to pause—to dwell in the moment between seeing and remembering, between surface and depth. The viewer is invited not to simply glance, but to stay, to feel the quiet, to let the reflective water become a mirror for their own thoughts. It is a gentle meditation on place, on inner calm, on the subtle interplay of light and liquid, of form and reflection.
 
In this work, I ask: When we stand before a lake, do we see only its surface? Or do we sense what lies underneath, the stillness beneath the ripple, the air above the water, the moment held in suspension? Le Lac Bleu is my invitation—to step into that space of pause, to notice what is often overlooked, and to find in the quiet surface a deeper reflection.
 
50cm x 62cm Oil and wax on card