The apples paintings              Comments from the visitors 

• Message de Dominique Dubois, le 15 novembre, 2001.   tes peintures sont géniales. toujours plein d'idées très intéressantes un grand sens de la composition et des couleurs pleines de soleil malgré le gris normand .Felicitations.dominique

Merci d'avoir bien voulu poster un commentaire si élogieux!
le Vexin Normand et le Vexin Français (bonnet vert et vert bonnet), aux confluent desquels j'ai installé mon nouvel atelier,  ne sont pas gris mais bien vert. De la Floride, en particulier de Miami, j'en ai plutôt le souvenir du gris: Le gris béton, qui malgré la peinture pastel que l'on y jette dessus, ne rends pas le paysage de Floride particulièrement attrayant. Déjà que seul les terrains de golf et les décharges d'ordures ménagères donnent un peu de relief, l'urbanisation de ce pays - plutôt inhospitalier - (ne faut il pas beaucoup d'énergie pour rafraîchir les appartement à grand renfort d'air conditionné presque toute l'année?) devient effrayante, et finalement je ne m'y suis pas du tout senti a mon aise après quinze ans passés en voiture sur l'autoroute US1 !  Je suis bien content d'être revenu chez moi, en Normandie. Bien sur, il n'y a pas du tout - mais alors pas du tout - la brillante citadinité de South Beach, mais puisqu'il n'y est plus possible d'être bohème qu'avec pas mal d'argent,  je préfère de loin être un bohème rural et discret, et manger les pommes de mon verger...Cela dit, chère Dominique de Miami, j'admire ton travail, et aimerais beaucoup avoir quelques photos de tes oeuvres récentes, et un CV que je pourrais poster sur la page web : "mes amis" de mon site. Amitiés, Pierre

• Posted by Jeanie on November 03, 2001   want to know more about King apple trees. and Gravesteen

• Answer, from Pierre:  Have a peak at these great apple-sites:  Click here: Pommes de nos vergers  http://www.pandemonium.fr/A/mim/pommes/pommes.htm  and Document sans titre   http://perso.club-internet.fr/lescrets/pomme1/pom2.htm
  

Posted by Chance Kendall on October 19, 01Hello, I really like the FEVRIER picture.  It is most outstanding.  I think the best part is the core of the apple exposing the tree inside. I think that it is a wonderful concept and you should keep up the good work. It also seems very graphic for some reason. So anyway, have a good life.

• Posted by Michelle Mchenzie on June 12, 01 : EDEN:   mr.Marcel  your work has such a romantic sadness about it. I can look at one of your painting for an eternity. And for every second that I ponder your work I overwhelmed by an array of emotions. What inspires your subject matter?
  

• Answer You are right to think that there is more than just the esthetic of the flowers, although it's a scene that forever ill cherish. There is also the setting (landscape, season, light, ambiance)  where I work for this theme. And certainly some earlier Biblical education.
  In all, the fruit of the original sin is such a fascinating story for me, that I purposefully left Miami in 2001 for my dear Normandy, (the valley of River Epte), just to be with the company of the old cider trees.
  April is the best month to see them awaking up explosively, after a long, moody winter. I set up my easel in cider apple trees orchard, near by an abandoned thousand year old ruin (Neaufles St Martin) . In such a setting, I dream to immemorial times,  and ...Eden.o

• Posted by DIana Blessinger on April 2001:   I saw another one of the apple series at gallery on Espanola Way last week- It was Gorgeous. I am not at a point in my life where I can buy originals, YET, so when you start doing reprints of the apple series, I want one of each.

• Message de Jean Hoenosh le 08 mars 2001  Je suis pas sur qu'en mars les pommiers fleurissent. ou est ce le "Global warming"? Aviez vous voulu parler du désir (de floraison en particulier, ou plus en général?) . . . par contre la peinture de pommiers en pleine maturité est tout à fait superbe apples paintings
  

• Posted by Jenna on September 30, 1999:  This last weekend we found ourselves in Miami again and our vacation would not have been complete with out a stop to see you. We purchased two more prints "Love Road" and "Love the Beach". Will you ever have "Doily with Shells", "Another", or "Eden" in prints? I would love them all!! You have found yourself two more fans and we can not thank you enough!!
  Follow Ups: Posted by Pierre Marcel on October 01, 1999   I am glad that the images I create participate somewhat in your life.  Thanks for your kind words. I wish you all the best.  In fact, you yourself are participating in the creation of such work, by providing comments and visiting this site or my gallery.
  
  I was working this year on a series of paintings about apple trees and Eden.  You did not see them in the gallery because they are exhibited in New York, at Jennifer Tyler Cashmere show room, 139 East 57 Street, 5th floor, until October 15.
  

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