I keep working in my studio on my large “Riviera Flowers” project.

Part Four of this course unexpectedly brought me to the point that besides the flowers, I have to do a sea as an element, and not all the flowers and leaves I imagined worked out when I painted them. The question about what composition I should do is still open. Using my collage application, I have tried to incorporate a new element into the painting – a monstera leaf I painted as a new element. I found one variant below having potential.

Below, I tried to look at different variations of trees altogether.

Below, I did a quick sketch with soft pastels, trying a different approach – creating a steeper diagonal for perspective as a saw in Cezanne’s works. I also used various shades of blue for the sea.

Below are new unattached developments I keep together to consider which direction to move further.

The primary outcome so far is that it looks like I should follow an unconventional approach to my composition and move away from a classic representation of the landscape. In my opinion, I have two options at least:

1. I can place the sea and skies in the centre and surround them with trees and flowers;
2. I create different pieces—fragments of local flora—and assemble them in different ways on the wall. They are not rectangular but irregularly shaped.