◇ Emerald Sea (2020) Original Oil Painting by Isabel Mahe

. . .

Some alchemists turned lead into gold.
All right.
Easy.

Nature managed to turn clouds into rain
and coal into diamonds.

Our hermeticists really ought to update their ambitions a little.
Have they even thought of it?
The possibilities are revolutionary!

To metamorphose milk into mother-of-pearl,
ladybirds into rubies,
blueberries into sapphires,
the ocean into emerald.

We could plunge into those precious waters,
feel submerged, flooded with riches,
intoxicated by the ebb and flow of the waves.

Dead drunk, swallowed by the liquid jewel,
we could also sink,
become mired,
drown,
and then
lose ourselves.

. . .

Isabel Mahe
13 août 2026

. . .

Highly fluid oil paint, thinned with turpentine.
On special 240 g/m² paper, natural linen shade.
Can be framed without glass, or under glass for added depth.

Materials used:

Oil painting on paper

Details:

• Oil painting on Paper
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 75 x 110 x 0.1cm (unframed) / 75 x 110cm (actual image size)
• Signed on the front
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: Nudes and erotic