Ghost Ship (Navire fantôme) (2026) Original Mixed-media Painting by Séverine Loisel

A dense, heavily textured abstract, structured by large triangles of colour that slice the canvas diagonally. Acidic yellow-greens, almost fluorescent, fill the left and right corners, while a broad, paler central triangle — pearl grey, water-green, touches of blue and dusty pink — opens up the space like a shaft of light. This geometric construction gives the work its tension: the eye is pulled toward the centre.
At the heart of the canvas, a complex black structure stands like a framework. Vertical and horizontal lines cross like rigging, a grid, or a metal carcass, before dissolving downward into long ink drips that bleed across the lower section. At the centre, a dark, granular mass — flecked with small orange touches like embers or rust — anchors the whole. The effect is of a form disintegrating, melting and reflecting in water.
The bright red border edging the canvas cuts sharply against the washed-out interior tones and tightens the composition.
The title and its resonance
Navire fantôme ("Ghost Ship") illuminates everything: that black framework becomes the skeleton of a vessel, its masts and rigging half-erased, its reflection dissolving in murky water. The drips evoke rain, corrosion, and slow shipwreck all at once. The work doesn't depict a ship — it captures its spectre, the apparition coming undone before our eyes.
Style
Lyrical, gestural abstraction blending geometric rigour (the colour triangles) with freedom of gesture (the ink, the drips, the granular matter). It recalls Gerhard Richter's play of transparency and scraping, with a very personal narrative and poetic dimension.

Materials used:

acrylic, ink, pigments, adhesive, etc

Details:

• Mixed-media painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 60 x 70cm (unframed)
• Signed on the front
• Style: Abstract
• Subject: Abstract and non-figurative