Positano – The View From The Third Floor is an original mixed media painting on canvas measuring 120 x 90 cm by Victoria Horkan. The tall upright canvas is flooded with warmth: a ground of ochre, sand and pale sage fills the centre while coral, peach and tangerine gather at the upper right. Across this sunlit field, printed butterfly forms are collaged in loose clusters, their teal, navy and deep cobalt wings patterned in black and white and edged with lemon and amber, so that as the eye adjusts they read as butterflies alighting and lifting rather than as pure abstraction. There is no single focal point; the forms distribute themselves across the canvas the way a swarm moves through warm air, and the upright format holds the whole scene at a slight elevation, as if seen from above a rooftop.

The title anchors the work in a specific place and moment: not a general view of the Amalfi Coast but the memory of looking out from one particular floor in Positano. The town's name is said to trace back to Poseidon, the sea god, yet Horkan's painting turns away from the sea entirely and gives Positano its butterflies and warm air instead, choosing the lightest register of a place more often painted for its water. This is the joyful counterpart to her storm paintings, drawing directly on her early work depicting butterflies and flowers, and placing those forms inside a specific, remembered landscape rather than an imagined one.

Horkan collages printed butterfly images directly onto the painted ground, then works oil into and across them, so some wings remain clearly legible while others are partially or almost completely submerged in paint, their edges still catching light differently to the surrounding impasto. Positano – The View From The Third Floor is a unique, one-of-one original oil and collage painting by Victoria Horkan, 120 x 90 cm, available to buy through Eclectic Gallery in Fitzrovia, London. To enquire about this work or to arrange a private viewing, please contact the gallery.