Inspired by the artist’s original photograph taken in Cuba, Odeur de la Mer transforms a seaside landscape into a sensory and emotional experience. The painting explores the invisible connection between color, memory, fragrance, and nature.
For the artist, perfumes are perceived as colors and emotions. In this work, the sea becomes a luminous blue presence — calming, dreamlike, and healing. The movement of the sky and water evokes the sensation of breathing ocean air filled with warmth, salt, and freedom.
The painting is also inspired by a personal memory of creating a custom perfume, Phoenix, during a workshop in Grasse, France, at the historic Galimard Laboratory. This experience deepened the artist’s reflection on how scent, color, and emotion can merge into one poetic impression.
Through expressive post-impressionist brushwork and vibrant texture, Odeur de la Mer celebrates nature as both protector and healer — a source of beauty, strength, and inner renewal.
