A calm and beautifully restrained mid-century cityscape composition that transforms an everyday cluster of rooftops into an elegant study of form, balance, and light, executed in oil onto canvas.

Rather than focusing on architectural detail, the artist reduces the surrounding buildings to simple interlocking planes, allowing the composition to become a harmonious arrangement of rectangles, pitched roofs, and chimneys. The elevated viewpoint creates an intimate glimpse across neighbouring buildings, evoking the quiet atmosphere of an early morning before the city stirs.

Executed in a distinctly modernist style, the painting reflects the Scandinavian appreciation for simplicity and order. The carefully flattened perspective, clean geometry, and subtle tonal transitions lend the work a contemplative quality, where familiar urban architecture becomes almost abstract in its rhythmic repetition.

The palette is deliberately muted and sophisticated, combining warm creams, soft browns, pale taupes, muted terracotta reds, cool slate greys, and charcoal blacks beneath a crisp, powder-blue sky. These restrained colours create a pleasing contrast between warm sunlit façades and cool shadowed rooftops, giving the painting a quiet sense of depth without sacrificing its graphic simplicity.

The brushwork is smooth and controlled throughout, with thin, even applications of paint that reinforce the crisp architectural forms. Gentle directional brushstrokes remain visible across the flat colour fields, lending the surface warmth and subtle texture while preserving the painting’s clean, minimalist aesthetic.

This oil on canvas is presented in a complementary wood frame with a stepped profile. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 45.5 x 38.5 cm (including frame)

A mid-century painting presents a quiet street rendered through a modernist lens, where architectural forms unfold along a gently receding road, and  executed in oil onto board.

Arched doorways, small staircases, and balcony details hint at a southern European setting, while stylised trees punctuate the scene with a sense of warmth and calm. The composition draws the eye inward, inviting the viewer to wander through this tranquil, almost dreamlike streetscape.

This structured work shows clear Cubist and geometric abstract influences, particularly in the faceted treatment of buildings and ground planes. Forms are broken into angular segments and overlapping geometric shapes, flattening perspective while simultaneously creating depth.

A muted yet expressive palette anchors the composition, with warm terracotta, blush pink, sandy beige, and soft browns tones contrasted against cool greys and dusty blues. Accents of green in the foliage introduce freshness and visual rhythm.

Brushstrokes are visible and purposeful, applied in broad, confident planes rather than fine detail. The layered paint application enhances the faceted Cubist structure, with tonal shifts used to suggest light, shadow, and architectural depth. The surface retains a gently textured, painterly quality that adds warmth and movement to the geometric composition.

This oil on board is presented in a complementary wood frame with an inner linen lining. The painting is in excellent vintage condition. The frame has a few minor scuffs.

Size:  37.5 x 46 cm (including frame)

An mid-century oil painting that captures a quiet street corner, where a row of low, yellow facades with shopfront windows are nestled beneath steep red-brown rooftops, executed in oil onto board and dated 1969.

Behind them, tall apartment blocks rise in muted yellow and cream, their flat walls punctuated by chimneys and rooflines silhouetted against a pale blue sky. The streets are empty, save for a lone streetlamp and utility box, lending the scene a still, almost cinematic quality.

The style blends modernist simplification with a touch of naïve precision, reducing architectural forms to bold, geometric planes while retaining enough detail to suggest texture and age. Colours are earthy and atmospheric -browns, and muted yellows dominate, contrasted by the cool grey of the street and the soft blue above. The brushwork is deliberate and smooth in the larger planes, while finer strokes animate the rooftops and wall textures, giving the surfaces a gently worn, lived-in feel.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary ridged gilt frame. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.