JILL MIRZA‘Market at Le Puy-en-Velay’18 x 32 in / 45.5 x 81 cm Acrylic on Canvas 2019
The main impact of this painting is to do with the extraordinary brilliance of colourfound in this unusual French town and the contrast between the verticality of thetowering houses and the horizontality of the large striped awnings. Beneath all the visualbusyness of the place the figures are dwarfed, lurking in the shadows beneath theumbrellas, creating a kind of underworld, a quieter area for the eye to rest andgrounding the image.