This is titled Sandcastles (80 × 120 cm, acrylic on canvas) a young girl bends to her work in the sand, building an elaborate castle. Inside, her mother — rendered in pale gold — is sheltered within the towers as though the child’s construction could protect her from the vast blue sea. The scene is tender yet impossible, a metaphor for love’s desire to shield what cannot be shielded.
Veronique Cauchefer draws from her own childhood by the sea — summers at elegant coastal resorts, undercurrents of family fracture and divorce, and the safe refuge she found in her imagination. In Sandcastles, the artist folds memory into myth, transforming a personal longing into a timeless image of innocence, care, and the fragility of protection.
This is titled Sandcastles (80 × 120 cm, acrylic on canvas) a young girl bends to her work in the sand, building an elaborate castle. Inside, her mother — rendered in pale gold — is sheltered within the towers as though the child’s construction could protect her from the vast blue sea. The scene is tender yet impossible, a metaphor for love’s desire to shield what cannot be shielded.
Veronique Cauchefer draws from her own childhood by the sea — summers at elegant coastal resorts, undercurrents of family fracture and divorce, and the safe refuge she found in her imagination. In Sandcastles, the artist folds memory into myth, transforming a personal longing into a timeless image of innocence, care, and the fragility of protection.
