Hortense bataille - les pins d'or

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 deepening her practice of watercolor, oil painting, and dry pastel alongside renowned American and Spanish painters, including Sebastian Capella, Joan Grine, and Wolf Kahn.
Her world, nourished by gardens, landscapes, living nature, and Mediterranean shores, 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, tangy yellows, fuchsias, turquoise blues, and indigo play off one another in a veritable firework display of color. Each shade is chosen with exquisite delicacy to make the canvas shimmer and evoke an immediate emotional response.
Elegant, feminine, and deeply dreamlike, her painting conveys a sense of happiness, as if nature were suddenly flooding our gaze with light and joy. An invitation to instant 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.

Artwork on a stretched canvas, ready to hang. Framing available on request.

A forest suspended between night and light. This acrylic painting on linen depicts a row of tall pines with golden trunks and luminous crowns, rising powerfully against an intense electric-blue background.

For this work, the artist used a bold, high-contrast palette—the warm gold of the branches and foliage stands out with striking clarity against the cobalt depths of the sky, creating a rare visual tension that is both powerful and soothing. Electric blue evokes infinity, the cosmos, and the silent depths of what lies beyond us. Gold speaks of light, presence, and tangible warmth. Together, they make the canvas vibrate with an almost supernatural energy.

The dense, rhythmic composition captures that suspended moment when the light seems to make its choice—between the blazing day and the night setting in. A painting that immediately transports you elsewhere, to an imaginary, sunlit South.

At 80 x 60 cm, this canvas makes a bold statement in a living room, bedroom, or office. Its strong contrasts and graphic presence make it an ideal piece for contemporary, daring, or minimalist interiors.

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