R. Serra - Aquellos días de verano XL

THOSE LAST DAYS OF SUMMER

Those Last Days of Summer is a painterly evocation of time and memory, a reflection on the beauty of moments that announce their own farewell. The work captures that particular feeling that accompanies the end of summer: a mixture of fulfillment, serenity, and nostalgia in the awareness that certain moments are destined to remain only in memory.

The artist develops a contemporary interpretation of the landscape through an expressive pictorial language, characterized by freedom of brushstroke and simplified forms. The composition combines architectural and natural elements, establishing a relationship between geometry and organic forms that lends depth and visual balance. The perspective guides the eye toward the horizon, creating a sense of openness and spatial continuity.

From a technical standpoint, the loose, gestural brushwork stands out, with layers of overlapping color that preserve the spontaneity of the painting process. The surfaces are built up through areas of color of varying intensity, while visible strokes add texture, movement, and an atmospheric quality to the scene. The artist avoids excessive detail and opts for an interpretive depiction in which perception and emotion take precedence over descriptive realism.

Color plays an essential role in creating the atmosphere. The intensity of the blues and turquoises engages in dialogue with the warm tones of the earth and architecture, creating a contrast that enhances the composition’s luminosity and depth. The interplay of these colors conveys the feeling of an afternoon bathed in summer light, when time seems to pass more slowly.

On a conceptual level, the work explores the relationship between place and memory. The landscape becomes an emotional space associated with contemplation, rest, and freedom. It is not simply a matter of depicting a setting, but of preserving a feeling: that of those days when everything seems to be in its place and the end still feels far away.

A work that celebrates the beauty of the fleeting and painting’s ability to transform an everyday moment into a lasting memory.


• Artist: R. Serra

• Technique: Acrylic on canvas
• Dimensions: 90 x 70 cm. 5 cm border. Portrait orientation.
• Year: 2026
• Unique work
• Hand-signed (on the back of the painting)
• Certificate of authenticity (COA) included
• Condition: Excellent
• Shipping: The work is shipped directly from the artist’s studio, carefully rolled and placed in a rigid cardboard tube or a box of similar dimensions to ensure it is protected during transit. All shipments include a tracking number.

Notes: Images are for illustrative purposes. The actual dimensions of the work are listed in the technical details and should be considered the primary reference. Colors may vary slightly depending on each screen’s settings.

R. Serra is a visual artist based in Spain whose practice centers on painterly exploration and the mechanisms involved in constructing images. A background in Fine Arts, specializing in painting, together with subsequent studies in graphic design, has shaped a visual language that places painting in dialogue with the aesthetics and visual logic of digital culture.
Their work explores memory as a process of editing and reconstruction, in which lived and imagined memories converge to create images that question the stability of representation. Through painting, they explore the tensions between presence and absence, experience and fiction, proposing scenes suspended between the intimate and the universal.
Over the past decade, they have built an exhibition history that includes group shows in galleries at home and abroad, consolidating their presence in the contemporary art scene.