Marie Lou’s generously scaled canvases, with layers of floating strokes, emphatic gestures and colors have a freshness, spontaneity and audacity that could well have the marks of an exuberant new talent.

Her paintings seem to be born with the assurance of a profound understanding of the ocean and the present world of sailing and racing. Her current palette consists primarily of Caribbean Ocean tones : purple, green, white and a full of spectrum of blue occasionally flushing into pinks or snapping into red, yellow or gold. Colors are applied roughly into and onto one another, so that an unlimited range of blue is modulated and stimulated in a very peaceful way...just like the dance of the ocean, strong and still, dictated by a cumulative rhythm of the emotions of the waterworld.

Marie Lou has done several Atlantic crossings on a 76’private sailing boat. She has a whole hearted belief in showing the artist’s concerns : finding and consolidating the role of the movement, the speed and the stillness; in creating space by using splashes and winds, so the viewer can enter the ocean and feel the emotion of surfing over the wake, and feel the fresh and tonic breeze of the flying boats.

The artist Marie Lou is the sailor of her art.

1999 ‘Boom Days’ - Leadville, Colorado with artist Ruth Jacobs
2000 ‘Floating’ - 76’ private sailing yacht named XTC
2001 ‘Orta’ - The Azores Islands
2002 ‘La Ferme Blanche’ - Antibes, France
2003 ‘Destinations’ - Gustavia, Saint Barthelemy, French West Indies
2004 ‘Ailleurs’ - Gustavia, Saint Barthelemy, French West Indies
Exhibition: Summer 2004: Montauk Yacht Club Resort & Marina
Exhibition: Fall 2 004 Bonifacio’s Citadel, Corsica, France
Exhibition: Spring 2005 Gustavia, Saint Barthelemy, French West Indies
Exhibition: Summer 2005 Pierre’s Restaurant, Bridge Hampton, NY USA

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