I paint to hold on to what matters — to fix light, memory, and intimacy in a gaze, to preserve moments we wish would never fade.

I don't like winter presents a new body of work by French painter Timm Blandin, in which light, memory, and emotional landscapes take center stage. The exhibition marks a continuation of the artist’s ongoing exploration of how personal experience and atmosphere shape perception, unfolding through images that feel at once immediate and quietly introspective. Blandin’s paintings hover between observation and introspection, offering moments that resonate with subtle emotional charge.

Rather than a literal rejection of the cold season, the exhibition’s title functions as a familiar, almost confessional phrase — a sentiment many recognize and share. It serves as an entry point into a more nuanced meditation on time, climate, and interior states, where winter becomes a metaphor for emotional distance, stillness, or reflection. This understated framing allows the work to unfold gently, inviting viewers to project their own memories and associations onto the scenes presented.

Drawing from everyday moments and imagined recollections, Blandin constructs pictorial spaces suspended between presence and remembrance. Figures, interiors, and landscapes appear infused with a sense of pause, as if caught in the threshold between what is lived and what is remembered. Through this delicate balance, I don't like winter opens an intimate visual dialogue on how memory and feeling shape the environments we inhabit.