HARTLEY RED HALFWAY THROUGH, 2023 Oil on canvas 80 cm in diameter Gift of private collection While graduating from the Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux in 2014 with a body of work in video, performance and installations, Jessica Hartley, known as Rouge Hartley, is developing an obsession with drawing and painting. and painting. Her work is rooted in an academic approach to the medium; she paints her walls with a brush her observation of reality to compose a figurative painting that could be described as romantic. romantic. Rouge Hartley's work is very contemporary. A complete artist, Rouge Hartley is interested in the space of the city as a source of intervention and inspiration. She proposes fables whose intimacy we could easily reappropriate, with a soft, enveloping poetry that we are lucky enough to have. enveloping poetry that we are lucky enough to admire in the form of a beautiful oil painting, a reflection of retained emotions. Instagram @rouge.hartley © Rouge Hartley