Ximena Heraud

Travelling in Peru · Oil and acrylic on canvas

Recorriendo Perú

Landscapes painted from journeys through Peru’s coast, highlands and Amazon — including remote places reached on foot, by climbing or by swimming. The series depicts sites such as the Colca Canyon, the Nazca Lines, the Uros islands and the Huacachina oasis, and has toured Europe, the UK and the United States since 2018, frequently with the support of Peruvian embassies. The paintings are often exhibited alongside poems by the artist and by the poet Javier Heraud.

Oil painting of the terraced Colca Canyon seen from above, with patchwork fields, salt-white flats and small turquoise pools.
Cañón del Colca Oil and acrylic on canvas Available · Enquire
Painting of an Andean condor gliding with wings outstretched against a blue sky above snow-dusted peaks.
Cóndor del Colca Oil on canvas · 75 × 75 cm Sold
Painting looking out from a dark cave mouth onto sunlit jungle foliage and a stairway.
Cueva de las Lechuzas Oil on canvas · 75 × 71 cm Sold
Painting of an arid desert plain with a snow-capped mountain and an expansive blue, cloud-streaked sky.
Desierto de Huarmey Oil and acrylic on canvas Available · Enquire
Painting of the El Misti volcano at dusk seen over orange-tiled Arequipa rooftops beneath a pink and blue sky.
El Misti Oil and acrylic on canvas Available · Enquire
Painting of the Huacachina oasis with palm trees, a green lagoon, a towering sand dune and a white egret at the water's edge.
Laguna de la Huacachina Oil and acrylic on canvas Available · Enquire
Painting of a blue lake below dry, rolling hills with a green marshy foreground.
Laguna de Pacca Oil on canvas · 69 × 100 cm US$2,380 · Enquire
Painting of an Amazonian lagoon with thatched stilt houses along a forested shore under a dramatic sky of piled clouds.
Laguna de los Milagros Oil and acrylic on canvas Available · Enquire
Painting of the Nazca Lines hummingbird geoglyph etched across a reddish desert plain seen from the air.
Líneas de Nazca Oil and acrylic on canvas Sold
Painting of a traditional totora reed boat on Lake Titicaca before the floating Uros islands and their reed dwellings.
Isla de los Uros Oil on canvas · 55 × 74 cm Sold
Painting of a sea lion resting on red cliffs beside a natural rock arch above turquoise sea.
Paracas Oil and acrylic on canvas Sold
Painting of a dark elephant-shaped rock arch dipping its trunk toward the sea on a sandy beach.
Playa El Elefante Oil on canvas · 59 × 90 cm US$1,810 · Enquire
Painting of a vivid pink and orange sunset reflected in a calm river, framed by silhouetted trees with a small moored boat.
Laguna de Yarinacocha Oil and acrylic on canvas Available · Enquire
Painting looking out from a thatched terrace over a curving bay with breaking waves and desert hills beyond.
Punta Patillos Oil and acrylic on canvas Available · Enquire
Painting of tall Puya Raimondi plants in flower on a golden mountain slope under a blue sky with white clouds.
Puya Raimondi Oil on canvas · 89 × 89 cm Sold
Painting of a white stone church with a domed bell tower before steep green mountains in the village of Tapay.
Tapay Oil and acrylic on canvas Available · Enquire
Painting of a lush green terraced valley with cultivated hillsides, scattered trees and distant mountains.
Tarata Oil and acrylic on canvas Available · Enquire
Painting of the rainbow mountain’s ochre, red and green mineral strata arcing beneath a heavy storm sky, with alpacas grazing on the golden slope.
Montaña de Colores Oil on canvas · 60 × 102 cm US$3,470 · Enquire
Painting of the white salt-evaporation terraces of Maras stepping down a shadowed valley in the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
Salineras de Maras Oil and acrylic on canvas Sold
Watercolour study of a hummingbird in flight on textured cream paper.
Hummingbird 1 Tempera on paper · 25 × 28 cm US$620 · Enquire
Watercolour study of a hummingbird in flight on textured blue paper.
Hummingbird 2 Tempera on paper · 27 × 26 cm US$620 · Enquire

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