One of the finest and most talented painters of Upper Normandy, Michel MARGUERAY was born in Calvados and has been practising his art for many years. He is a full-blown artist whose works I first saw in Rouen as early as 1974.

Undoubtedly figurative, Michel Margueray honours reality with much sensitivity and personality without ever submitting to it however. A landscape painter, he depicts skies with expertise and diversity steeped in emotion and energy, thereby underlining lively and harmonious sites where time and climate and light make a whole that demonstrate the painter’s skills as a great colourist.

It is impossible to conclude without mentioning his wonderful ability to draw perspectives that are judiciously necessary to the beauty of landscapes in which the elements, vegetation and characters advocate experience, curiosity for the unusual and generous atmospheres.

André RUELLAN, critique d'art
www.art-culture-france.com

In Fraise of Clarity

More than a pointer of seascapes, Michel Margueray is a pointer of water. The forever mobile, mirror-like surface of this sovereign element fires in him an impetuous quest for clarity of which each o fhis canvases is a benign illustration. His colors sing and even the snow is bedecked in a thousand nuances. Astonishing shapes emerge from his sbadows. The quest for light is visible in tbe flutterings of the dawn and the glow of tbe evening.

Luis PORQUET
Margueray, Le leopard d'or, 2005

Michel Margueray is an artist whose strength of character and pictorial charisma allow him to express in his paintings his love of nature, his passion for forms and his will to demonstrate the poetic transcription, the interpretation of his daily observations.
Seascapes or landscapes, Margueray's works bear that power of evocation that sublimates reality by providing it with an authenticity that goes straight to the heart.
The Normandy-born Margueray' love of the sea and taste for wide-open spaces and discovery transform his canvases into sensitive testimony of his pictorial wanderings.
With rigorous feel, highly elaborate draftsmanship and well-structured compositions, Margyueray demonstrates in each canvas, whatever its dimension or theme, the feelings and emotions his subject inspired.
This is why a monograph dedicated to the painted works of this talented artist had become indispensable. The quality of bis oeuvre, the special light that floods his paintings, his magnificent interpretation of reality observed, make of Margueray an artist whose work has satisfied the most difficult of collectors and art-lovers over the years.
Michel Margueray is, in fact, an artist who does not like to show himself much, who prefers to work in his studio rather than be seen at social events. He likes to paint non-stop and new subjects are always on his mind. Every vision, every detail grasped is a fresh occasion for self-expression and for our greatest pleasure, self-revelation.
Margueray is like a reporter of everyday life. He expresses himself by showing us simple but grandiose events of day-to-day life or if nature, making us rediscover what we thought we already knew, drawing our attention on forgotten details or scenes that we simply look through.
For this artist whose every show is a source of wonder, art is first of all a way of communicating, of opening up to people.
It wou??ld be impossible to conclude without rendering homage to his wife Monique who is of great help thanks to her support and the happiness she brings him. May the readers of this book take as much pleasure reading about Margueray's paintings as he does in executing them.

Patrice de la Perrière
Margueray, Le leopard d'or, 2005

For Michel Margueray 2005

In these cruel, aggressive and terrible times, it is a pleasure to find an artist who loves and interprets the stuff of dreams through calm, restful and welcoming nature.
A port smiles at you, ships invite you to travel and dream. It is more an "Embarcation for Cytbera" than the conquest the West...
Michel Margueray's expression is solidly in its serenity: we like, we assure,we're reasured ! And enchanted.

Michel-Henry
Margueray, Le leopard d'or, 2005