Time square, 2024

Patrick Rousseau  

My style could be defined as impressionist, not quite figurative, abstract in the touch. Although I live in the countryside, I do urban landscapes. This environment inspires the colors that I put in Parisian or New York landscapes. I often paint the rain, it makes the images shimmer on shiny floors. My landscapes are apparently depopulated. Often we only see two characters but there are many others, we barely see them, behind the windows, in the cars, on a street corner, at least that's what I see in my paintings. I try to make the colors speak, to transmit through them the perfumes, the sounds of Paris, the meetings between friends, the cries of children and everything that gives us happiness. If I succeed in transmitting these emotions I am happy. I also work on characters, anonymous silhouettes in winter gardens. Those who take their time looking at life without rushing too much, with a bit of melancholy catching up on lost time, crunching each moment as if it were unique. I think it's a bit of me who would like to blend into this garden, one day not too far away I will do nothing but that.