PIERRE CAYOL

Comments by Gerald Vizenor

Pierre Cayol perceives the natural world as a creative artist. Provence has provided him and many other distinctive painters some of the most memorable scenes in the history of art. Pierre has painted his way by seasons of expressionism, by singular, sensuous figures, by the traces of landscapes near home, and he has created inspired abstract scenes of the mountains and mesas on the Navajo Nation in the American Southwest.

Pierre is an extraordinary painter of the world. He creates a natural union of lines, textures, and the masterly touch of bright, sweeping colors in his prints and paintings. The lines create original fusions of visionary landscapes, forms in flight, and the natural signatures of mighty mountains. The sentiments of color, texture, tease of balance, and the brush, contact and link of forms create a natural sense of balance, and always with traces of humor, eternal fire, and natural reason. The painterly details of his abstract landscapes create a sense of splendor and humility.

Pierre is a dedicated painter of sensuous scenes, and he reveals a spirited consonance by the natural, expressive tease of figures and landscapes. These practices are both painterly and literary, a sense of presence and irony in the very expressive shifts and turns of light and dark, color, and perceived motion. Pierre is an artist of natural, creative unions not separations.

Pierre has studied art in Grenoble and at the Académie Julian in Paris, but his family home as an artist, father, and husband has always been in Tavel, France. Pierre has received many awards as a distinctive painter, and he is a member of the Autumn Salon of Paris. Furthermore he is a literary artist in the sense that his original prints illustrate books of poetry by more than fifteen authors.

Gerald Vizenor

June 4, 2009