Nuits de Bourgogne

NUITS DE BOURGOGNE Acrylic, Collage & Phosphorescent Paint on Wood Panel | 24" × 20" | 1⅞" Deep

Turn the lights off. Wait. Then see what this painting really is.

Nuits de Bourgogne — Nights of Burgundy — is a painting that exists in two states. In daylight it is a nocturnal forest scene of considerable atmosphere — bare winter trees rising against a deep charcoal sky, a church spire silhouetted on the left, two small dark animals moving through the undergrowth with the quiet purposefulness of creatures who own the night. Orbs of colour float through the trees — blue, pink, green, orange, yellow — too luminous to be lanterns, too deliberate to be stars. A eight-pointed star hangs in the middle distance like a navigation point for something that doesn't use maps.

Then the lights go off.

The phosphorescent paint glows. The orbs pulse softly in the dark. The star holds its light longer than anything else. The forest becomes something else entirely — a place where the magical is not suggested but demonstrated, quietly, in the dark, for anyone patient enough to wait for it.

This is a painting about the Burgundy countryside at night — the deep, ancient dark of a French forest, the kind of darkness that cities have forgotten how to make, alive with things that only reveal themselves when you stop trying to see them with the lights on.

The collage elements add texture and history to the surface — layers of the physical world beneath the painted one, the way the past is always present beneath the present in old places like Burgundy.

Nuits de Bourgogne. What it shows you in the light is beautiful. What it shows you in the dark is something else entirely.

✨ A Note on This Work

Nuits de Bourgogne contains phosphorescent paint that glows in the dark after exposure to light. For the full experience — charge it in daylight and turn the lights off. The painting will do the rest.

📦 Shipping & Details

• 24" × 20" original on birch wood panel
• Acrylic, collage and phosphorescent paint
• 1⅞" deep cradled panel — gallery ready, no framing required
• Ships carefully packaged — ready to hang
• Certificate of authenticity included

One original. No reproductions. Turn the lights off.