Amber Blaze by Isabel Mahe Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Oil on linen canvas Dimensions: 65 x 81 cm Year: 2022 Price: $2200.00 USD Status: available . . . The forest bursts into flames. Defenceless. A vulnerable victim of the flames’ assault. A blazing surge, imperious, uncontrollable, purely and simply indecent. An ejaculation of fire. . . . Why collect this work?A narrow, dark tree interrupts a near-continuous field of orange, turning the depicted wildfire into a contest between fragile vertical structure and engulfing light. Mahe states that painting and poetry are connected in her practice. Here, the accompanying text intensifies the fire through bodily and violent language, while the image remains more ambiguous about destruction and survival.In the photograph, dense blue-black vegetation anchors the lower edge and isolated branches cross the brighter ground. Long vertical streaks resemble falling flame or heat, compressing the landscape into a shallow, consuming field.Catalogued as oil on linen, the medium supports both opaque silhouettes and luminous transitions. Thin-looking trails and broader orange passages differentiate the fire’s directional movement from the tree’s sharply legible trunk.Dated 2022 and titled Amber Blaze, the painting is a focused encounter with how landscape imagery can register environmental threat without documentary detail. Its central tree provides a precise measure of scale, exposure and possible endurance. About the ArtistIsabel Mahe Isabel Mahe is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: Painter. Based in CHASSENON 16150, FR. Nationality: French My painting explores the female figure as a space of emotion, vulnerability, sensuality and freedom.
