Meet Me at the Rendezvous (2023)

Meet Me at the Rendezvous (2023) captures the fragile tension between love, memory, and suspended time. Through Baroque-inspired lighting and cinematic intimacy, Georgina M. Cox explores connection as both sanctuary and uncertainty; a moment held between longing and goodbye.

⤷ When I painted Meet Me at the Rendezvous, I wanted to create a moment that feels both fleeting and eternal, the kind of encounter that lives longer in memory than it ever did in real life. It’s a study of affection, of quiet devotion, but also of the weight that lingers behind tenderness.

The figures are caught in a half-light like a golden, nostalgic glow that could belong to late afternoon or early evening. She looks up at him with a softness that carries both love and doubt; his expression is turned inward, almost heavy. Between them, something unspoken vibrates — not tragedy, but inevitability. That fragile, suspended intimacy is what I wanted to preserve.

Visually, the composition borrows from Romantic portraiture and Baroque warmth — rich earth tones, glowing skin, and that slightly diffused, painterly light that suggests memory rather than present reality. I wanted the background to blur into impressionistic abstraction, like the world falls away in that instant.

Thematically, Meet Me at the Rendezvous is about the in-between: before the confession, after the argument, during the realisation that something is about to change. The title evokes secrecy and intimacy — a private place away from the world’s gaze — but there’s also a bittersweet undertone. The “rendezvous” could be a reunion or a farewell.

The small details carry emotional weight: the clasp of her necklace resting at her collarbone, his suggested downturned eyes, the warmth gathering at the edges of their faces. These choices aren’t decorative — they build the emotional architecture of the piece. Light here functions as memory itself: selective, forgiving, and deeply human.

Meet Me at the Rendezvous continues my exploration of emotional realism within painterly romanticism. It’s about how love feels when it’s too large to articulate and when you can only hold someone’s face and hope they understand what you can’t say.