The Church, East Knoyle 1916

Lucien Pissarro captured this view of The Church, East Knoyle, using oil on canvas. It's a festival of tiny touches, a mosaic of moments where color meets canvas, a testament to the art of just putting paint down, one stroke at a time. Up close, the surface is alive, a field of broken color. Look at the way he builds the form of the church with these tiny flecks – pale greys and pinks that somehow coalesce into stone. It's like he's not just painting the church, but the very air around it, the way the light bounces and shifts. The roof in the foreground is a real highlight – a symphony of reds and browns, each tile rendered with such care that you can almost feel the rough texture. This reminds me of Cezanne, and the way he’d return to the same subject, again and again, each time trying to capture something just out of reach.