Spring 1998,
France
Acrylic
on canvas 20 x 20 inches (50 x 50 cm)
Collection
Marylin Seltzer, Miami 1998
Story:
In the footsteps
of Apple Tree 2, I experimented with melting acrylic
glazes in the misty Normandy rain.
Comments:
Michelle Mchenzie on June
12, 2001:
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?
Pierre:
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.
