This article is a companion paper of a previous work \cite{Aujol[3]} where we have developed the numerical analysis of a variational model first introduced by L. Rudin, S. Osher and E. Fatemi \cite{Rudin[1]} and revisited by Y. Meyer \cite{Meyer[1]} for removing the noise and capturing textures in an image. The basic idea in this model is to decompose f into two components (u+v) and then to search for (u,v) as a minimizer of an energy functional. The first component u belongs to BV and contains geometrical informations while the second one v is sought in a space G which contains signals with large oscillations, i.e. noise and textures. In Y. Meyer carried out his study in the whole ^2 and his approach is rather built on harmonic analysis tools. We place ourselves in the case of a bounded set of ^2 which is the proper setting for image processing and our approach is based upon functional analysis arguments. We define in this context the space G, give some of its properties and then study in this continuous setting the energy functional which allows us to recover the components u and v. model signals with strong oscillations. For instance, in an image, this space models noises and textures. case of a bounded open set of ^2 which is the proper setting for image processing. We give a definition of G adapted to our case, and we show that it still has good properties to model signals with strong oscillations. In \cite{Meyer[1]}, the author had also paved the way to a new model to decompose an image into two components: one in BV (the space of bounded variations) which contains the geometrical information, and one in G which consists in the noises ad the textures. An algorithm to perform this decomposition has been proposed in \cite{Meyer[1]}. We show here its relevance in a continuous setting.