Four small, brightly painted fish drift diagonally across a pale, milky sea inside a golden sardine tin. Each fish carries its own band of colour—yellow, orange, turquoise, blue—creating a gentle rhythm from top to bottom. A vertical metal key rests on a wooden panel at the right, reminding us of the object’s everyday origin while the resin surface turns it into a quiet, luminous seascape.
Soft Tide Quartet captures one of Ortaire de Coupigny’s favourite contrasts: the delicacy of marine life staged inside a simple food can, suspended in time yet full of movement.
Soft Tide Quartet - Artwork by Ortaire de Coupigny
Sculpture and painting : metal on aluminium / Wax / pigments / Resin.
Size : 8 cm x 10 cm x 3 cm. / 3.15 in × 3.94 in × 1.18 in.
One-of-a-kind artwork.
Signed by the artist.
2025
Ready to hang (See back picture).
No exposure to direct sun or above 50°C or above 122°F.
