The Still Room
Eight oil paintings to sit with for a moment — no hurry, no commentary to agree with. Just the pictures.
Painted from memory in the asylum at Saint-Rémy, a small village asleep beneath a turning sky.
The hazy harbour at Le Havre at dawn — the little painting that gave Impressionism its name.
A girl turning to meet your eye — a face, a glance, and one soft point of light.
An old warship towed to the breaker's yard at sunset — the age of sail giving way to steam.
A lone figure at the summit, the whole landscape dissolving into cloud below him.
Two figures wrapped in gold leaf at the edge of a flowering meadow.
A vase of yellow on yellow, painted to welcome a friend to the house at Arles.
The surface of a pond at Giverny, where the sky and the water quietly become one thing.