Painting Costa Rica 31

Art comes to Caravane.
Johanna Gaudeau and Caravane join forces to create a series of unique artworks.

For this collaboration with Caravane, Johanna Gaudeau reinterprets the house’s signature materials, cotton, linen, khadi and hand-printed fabrics, integrating them directly into the heart of her creations. Inspired by the wild landscapes discovered throughout her travels, she creates textured compositions combining sand, textiles and hand-crafted ceramics. Designed to interact naturally with living spaces, her works invite a deeply sensitive and sensory experience.

This artwork draws its inspiration from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, and more particularly from the powerful light at the end of the day. Johanna Gaudeau captures those suspended moments when the sun sets behind the palm trees, when people instinctively turn toward the light and the tones of sand, vegetation and sky seem to merge into the same golden warmth. Through this composition, the artist seeks to evoke a feeling of simple, sunlit and almost silent harmony, where the landscape becomes a space for calm and contemplation.

To create this artwork, Johanna Gaudeau combined lime paint, a unique ceramic piece and Caravane fabrics. Her choice fell on the Cirrus fabric, whose delicacy, subtle presence and refined weave naturally enhance the balance and softness of the composition, without ever overpowering the artwork itself.