Hortense Bataille - Golden Forest

Hortense Bataille-Watkins lives and works in Marseille. After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts de Caen and in several Parisian studios, she spent seven years in the United States, where she deepened her practice of watercolor, oil painting, and soft pastels alongside renowned American and Spanish painters, including Sebastian Capella, Joan Grine, and Wolf Kahn.

Inspired by gardens, landscapes, living nature, and the Mediterranean shores, her world does not seek to reproduce reality. Hortense interprets it poetically, at the boundary between figuration and dreamlike imagery, revealing all its vitality.

Her signature style stands out for its bold combinations and vibrant palette: almost fluorescent anise greens, lemon yellows, zesty yellows, fuchsias, turquoise blues, and indigos play off one another in a veritable fireworks display of color. Each shade is chosen with great delicacy, making the canvas shimmer and stirring an immediate emotion.

Elegant, feminine, and deeply dreamlike, her paintings offer a feeling of happiness, as if nature were suddenly flooding our gaze with light and joy. An invitation to immediate happiness .

She has recently trained in art therapy and now leads intuitive painting workshops, offering a space for emotional expression, release, and creative exploration guided by intuition.

A stylized forest suspended between dreams and Mediterranean light. This acrylic painting on linen depicts a row of trees with deep ultramarine-blue trunks, rising elegantly against a backdrop bathed in gold, peach, and luminous pastels.

For this work, the artist used gold acrylic paint and oil pastels, creating a rich, luminous texture that shifts with the ambient light. The contrast between the warmth of the sunlit background and the intense depth of the cobalt blue gives the composition a unique poetic tension, both soothing and vibrant.

The frieze-like composition, with its five trees and their generous, rounded canopies, evokes the pine groves of the Mediterranean coast, the cicadas, and the heat of summer. A work that transports you straight to the South.

Measuring 80 x 60 cm, this painting fits perfectly in a bright living room, bedroom, or dining room. Its warm tones and serene feel make it an ideal piece for natural, bohemian, or Mediterranean-style interiors.

Hand-painted, one of a kind. Ready to hang upon arrival.