View From the Workshop - Oil painting by Sebastien Coueffic
View from the Workshop by Sébastien Coueffic is an original oil painting on Japanese shikishi board, part of his Architecture series for Art San Gallery. The work presents a sharply cropped urban façade, rendered in large, flat areas of color that give it both graphic precision and a quietly atmospheric presence.
At the center of the composition is a gabled roof and series of windows, framed by strong verticals and diagonals. The angularity of the architecture is softened by the artist’s use of cool greys, off-whites, and soft yellows, punctuated by saturated blues and muted pinks. The shadows are sharply cast, not as volumetric gradients but as defined shapes—lending the composition the formal clarity of mid-century modernist painting, such as the spatial austerity found in Ralston Crawford or Charles Sheeler’s precisionist works.
Coueffic’s approach merges painterly minimalism with emotional subtlety. The building is not described in detail but abstracted into geometric masses, each serving a compositional role. This restraint aligns with the formal strategies of Color Field painting, where the interplay of adjacent tones suggests structure without relying on contour. Yet, unlike purely abstract approaches, Coueffic roots his forms in lived experience—his view is not symbolic, but sensory.
There are also echoes of post-impressionist urban painting, particularly the spatial compression and tonal contrasts seen in early Edward Hopper, though without his psychological tension. Here, the atmosphere is more meditative—less about isolation than about the visual presence of place in its sunlit stillness.
Painted in oil, the surface remains smooth and uniform, emphasizing Coueffic’s disciplined brushwork and attention to chromatic precision. The shikishi board, traditionally used in Japanese calligraphy and poetry, supports this economy of means. Its gold-edged format acts as both frame and container—tightening the pictorial space and focusing attention on the spatial relationships within.
In View from the Workshop, Sébastien Coueffic continues his exploration of architectural form as a language of memory and observation. His use of reduced forms, restrained palette, and careful alignment gives this modestly scaled painting a quiet strength. The result is a distilled vision of place—firmly modern, deeply personal, and formally resolved.
Details and dimensions
Original one-of-a-kind artwork by Sebastien Coueffic.
Oil painting on a traditional Shikishi made in Kyoto - Japanese paper mounted on a cardoard with a golden border of metallic paper.
Size : 24cm x 27cm (9.4 x 10.6 inches)
Signed "Coueffic".
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