Michelle Mulgray
Biography
Born in 1938 in Randel (Normandy), France.
He started painting at a young age. His paintings are expressions of "eternal happiness". In his work, everything is wrapped in a gentle and subtle light. His paintings belong to the traditional French painting. Like all impressionist painters, he expresses the light and shadow of nature, and the emotions that nature gives, with a delicate touch, a certainty of color and true colors. Entering a Marguerite painting is like walking along a forest path on a summer day.
The beauty of the form, the flowing tones, and the accents of color are the secrets of his clear paintings. Even the texture is concrete, and it feels like being in a colorful dream world.
<Canals of Venice> Oil painting 80x80cm
Exhibiting salon results
Salon of the French Artists Association Salon of members of the National Fine Arts Association
Awards
Winner of the Arts and Sciences Literature Prize and the Paris Exhibition Prize
Univers des arts April 2009
Marglay: The understated charm of landscape painting
A work by Marglay is not just a story of painting. It is also a story of travel, of coming and going to places that are important to him. The presence of places that he loves is the characteristic and uniqueness of his art. He needs to visit cities, fields, ports, etc. He needs to go to the places he is painting, face the landscape, feel the colors, the nuances, the light, the scents. This attitude is the source of his original creativity. Whether it is Venice, Saint-Briac, Menton or Honfleur, his vitality and style of figurative painting are the same. Expressing what he himself feels means conveying to the canvas the emotions that the wonder of nature gives him. He brings out the subject matter softly and delicately with a precise and sensitive touch. There is a love for the landscape. His deep affection for his favorite themes is also a testament to his intimate dialogue with nature. Marglay is a landscape painter par excellence, and he knows everything about the white dress of snow, the gentleness of silence, and the hues of twilight. He wanders through the lavender fields, the moors and the paths, trying to capture the atmosphere. He tries to capture on canvas the delicate warmth, the wild harmony that emanates from the sky and the hills, the beach and the village. The figures in Margrey's paintings are well proportioned and give the landscapes a warmth, but the sea, the boats, the trees and the houses remain the main themes. Author Francoise Serigny
Univers des arts Summer 2005 issue
Michelle Margrey Clear Light
Michelle Marglay's choice is as clear as a summer sky. Her choice is to depict nature in its clarity. However, the shining colors of the Coquelicot and the pure snowy landscapes, because of their transience, make you feel the artist's desire to keep them forever on the canvas. The charm of our planet is depicted so vividly that you wonder why you didn't notice this miraculous beauty before.
With her talent, Margret makes us look at what we see but do not actually notice: the artist makes us realize how wonderful it is to breathe the scent of flowers, to feel the gentle breeze on a yacht's sails, to gaze at the sparkling waters of the ocean.
Michel Marglay is surrounded by the richness of everyday landscapes and expresses them in harmony down to the smallest detail. With a delicate and precise touch, the artist knows how to paint exactly what he wants to depict. With patience and affection, his clear gaze fixes on the village streets and the yachts at the anchorage, he adds and subtracts distant valeurs to emphasize the perspective, and intensifies the nuances of the sky to maintain the unity of the overall atmosphere through color. Michel Marglay's works are a testimony of his artistic gentleness and the infinite richness of the world that surrounds us.
Michel-Margueray, University of the Arts 2007 06
The city of Conde-sur-Noireau is opening a municipal museum. To commemorate the opening, an exhibition will be held to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Michel Margrey's career as a painter. Margrey was born in Randel in Normandy in 1938. He started drawing at a young age and became a painter. Since 1992, the city of Conde-sur-Noireau has held painting and sculpture exhibitions, and Margrey was one of the founders of the salon and exhibits his work every year. Margrey is popular not only in France but also in the United States, where he holds regular exhibitions, but in recent years he has also been introduced in Japan. Michel Margrey is certainly a talented painter with a strong individuality and pictorial charisma. His paintings show his love for his motifs and his passion for replacing them with his own poetic world of colors. In front of nature, Margrey is an endless fountain of inspiration. To borrow the artist's own expression, "In each landscape, the elements of nature are constantly changing. The artist's impressions also change. Therefore, even if the same landscape is painted, the way it is handled will change from time to time. You have to feel the atmosphere, capture the emotion, and reconstruct the painting. In other words, it is also necessary to get away from the first impression and go beyond the visible world. Marglay became a poet who sang about the seasons and the everyday scenery that surrounded him, and also a reporter of quiet life. In any case, the exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of Michel Marglay's painting career, commemorating the opening of the Conde-sur-Noireau Charles Leandre Municipal Museum, will satisfy his long-time fans and teach us that true art makes people happy.
Univers des arts magazine summer 2002 issue
Michel Malgret <Lyrics of the Sea>
Michel Malgré is a member of the Society of French Painters and the Society of National Fine Arts, and is active both in France and abroad. To convey the image of this artist on one page would be impossible to convey the full extent of his artistic adventure, which began in his childhood.
Magritte's comment about his work, "I feel something close to poetry," expresses the essence of his painting well. The landscapes he paints are more everyday to him than breathing, and they are landscapes he has been familiar with since childhood, so to speak, that he "can paint them with his eyes closed."
He explores various places, coasts, lanes, and harbors, and finds places that inspire him with gentleness and modesty. "High Tide," "Cabin," and "Boat Returning from Fishing" are peaceful scenes of everyday life, which he fixes on canvas as if he is regretting the passing of happy time.
Patrice de La Perriere
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