The Time Gone By

Original painting by Sana El Khamlichi.

Technique: Acrylic on cotton canvas.
Dimensions: 92 x 65 cm.
Year: 2025.

Unique work, hand painted and signed by myself.

Artistic description:

This work presents itself as an echo to my painting "The Time of Love." While they once drifted gently on their boat, carried toward an infinite horizon, we now find the same couple, years later, sitting side by side, embracing on a bench, still suspended in that timeless moment.

What has changed? That small silhouette playing by the lake: their grandchild, a symbol of a love that has endured through time, and a bond passed on to their children's children.

From the boat, image of tender and fragile beginnings, to this bench, imbued with serenity and maturity, the path before them tells of all they have lived together, the joys as well as the trials, that brought them here, and all that they still have to share.

The palette echoes that of the first painting, yet in deeper, richer tones, as if the colors themselves had crossed the years. For here, time erases nothing: it amplifies, it enriches, it makes it last.

"The Time Gone By" thus evokes both memory and the very passage of time: the time that holds, the time that carries away, the time that heals. And if the sun seems to be setting, it still illuminates their love, which will survive long after they're gone.