Verdon - Le Lac de Sainte-Croix (2026) Original Oil Painting by Chris Walker

Verdon - Le Lac de Sainte-Croix Oil on stretched canvas
A vibrant landscape inspired by the bold colours and simplified forms of north american modernist art. Turquoise waters, vivid crimson hills and soft blue mountains create a striking interpretation of Lac de Sainte-Croix, while small figures and dogs add a sense of scale and exploration. An uplifting, colour-filled composition that celebrates the beauty and openness of the Provençal landscape. This is an expressive, emotional, interpretation of le Lac de Sainte‑Croix on the River Verdon. It is influenced by the colour‑field landscapes of the Canadian artist Ted Harrison. This is a vivid, stylised landscape scene centred on the lake, a calm body of water. A cool, glassy presence, emphasizing the classic Verdon turquoise and deep blue colours. Around it rise rounded, forested hills with the mountains beyond. The palette pushes the hills into glowing bands of fiery reds and glowing oranges, and pinks giving the land itself a Mediterranean summer heat, giving the familiar geography a dreamlike intensity.
The sky softens the composition, a quieter counterbalance to the saturated land below. Overall, this image is as a dreamscape, recognisable as nature, yet transformed by heightened colour and simplified forms. It is about mood and energy and it carries a warm, otherworldly atmosphere. This canvas is intimate; the lake is close, the hills enclosing, the viewer is pulled inward, the hills of the Var echo a joyful exaggeration.

Materials used:

oil paint

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 70 x 50 x 17cm (unframed) / 70 x 50cm (actual image size)
• Signed on the front
• Style: Urban and Pop
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky