Rue Terre Neuve, Meudon c. late 1910s - early 1920s

Gwen John painted this dreamy landscape, *Rue Terre Neuve, Meudon*, with oil on canvas. It’s a world of muted greens, browns, and grays that make you feel you're looking at a memory. You can almost feel her standing there, deciding where to put each brushstroke. The paint is thin, washy, like watercolor. It blends into the canvas, creating soft, hazy edges. She's built up a real sense of depth by layering color and tone, haven’t you noticed? I wonder if she was lonely when she painted this. She was living in France, away from her family and was always kind of an outsider, like me. It seems like a quiet street, and she’s included some figures walking along, as though she is looking down on the scene from above. I love how she’s captured the light filtering through the trees, making everything glow. Like other paintings of this time, it’s not about being super real, it's more about feeling. It's a mood, you know? That's what makes painting so cool – it's this ongoing conversation, a way of seeing and feeling that keeps evolving.