That same year, as is common practice among painters, GRATALOUP took up the theme of the Irish Sea, already expressed through a series of monochrome canvases between 1971 and 1973.

This new series will no longer be monochromatic like the previous one, but will propose an explosion of colors, through the theme of the "Look of the painter" and the polychromy.

"These canvases are symptomatic of a return to polychromy through the use of the coruscant light prism that deposits all its strength on the reliefs."