Photo by Sebastian Brune
Thomas Delaroziere is a painter from Martinique, based in Berlin. His work returns again and again to Caribbean landscape, not as documentation, but as an act of love for a place that is both beautiful and damaged, and that he can only partially reach.
Trained in architecture and engineering, he builds space in paint through light, rhythm, and implication : what is blocked by vegetation, hidden by a hillside, present but unseen. His paintings invite the viewer to project their own sense of home into that space.
His current series, Jardin Créole, explores the gardens and surrounding spaces of Caribbean homes, the boundary between lived and imagined place, between memory and presence.