Original artwork

With Lunch break, Isabelle Langlais captures a suspended moment within a Montreal urban landscape. The scene, built with strong depth, draws the eye into an alley animated by brick façades, aged signage, discreet figures, and the cool light of a winter day. The buildings seem to carry traces of time, like fragments of memory embedded in the surface.

Through mixed media, the artist enriches the canvas with textures, layered effects, and graphic details that give the work both rawness and sensitivity. The warm tones of the brickwork contrast with the pale snowy ground, creating an urban atmosphere filled with nostalgia. Lunch break evokes those ordinary moments when the city, between movement and stillness, becomes a quiet stage for personal memories and deep emotions.