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When one imagines
Olivier's paintings, it immediately brings to mind the
true meaning of the French phrase, “joie de vivre.” Spanning
the world from Morocco to Rome, Egypt to Venice, Mr. Verley's
works inspire and capture the essence of his subjects,
be it horses and their Moroccan riders going full gallop
across the plains or a farmer captured in a field of ruby
drenched poppies. His paintings have the capacity to energize
and evoke feelings of desiring to be there...in that place,
experiencing all the possibilities of life.
— Tom and Trish O'Connor
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Vacation oil
and acrylic on canvas
45 x 60 $22,000 |
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Relaxation oil
and acrylic
38 x 51 $18,000 |
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Each time I look at Verley's painting
I see something new. The energetic strokes of the brush,
the choice and placement of the colors on the canvas,
all work together to create a kind of rhythm and harmony.
Like listening to my favorite symphony by Brahms over
and over, I get endless enjoyment from Olivier Suire
Verley's painting. It is a treasure!
— Amy Ford
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Field oil
and acrylic
31.5 x 47.25 $14,200 |
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Anybody oil
and acrylic
31.75 x 39.25 $12,200 |
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Icarus oil
and acrylic
47.25 x 31.5 $15,000 |
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Ultramarine Horses oil
and acrylic
11.75 x 55 $8,200 |
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Gathering oil
and acrylic
15.75 x 47.25 $9,500 |
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Reunion oil
and acrylic
10 x 32 $4,800 |
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Horseback Ride charcoal
23.5 x 17.5 $3,000 |
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Two Sailors oil
and acrylic
42.25 x 31.5 $14,800 |
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The Swing oil
and acrylic
11.75 x 55 $8,600 |
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Roofs in Rome oil
and acrylic
9.75 x 31.5 $4,800 |
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AddisonArt surprised us several
years ago with the introduction of Olivier Suire Verley
to the American art world. The unassuming French artist
is unsurpassed when it comes to color and, above all,
movement of people and animals in his beach, market scenes
and landscapes.We could not resist his field of poppies
blowing in the wind in Provence and consider it our best
acquisition to date.
— Mieke and Ad Vos
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Three Horses oil
and acrylic
23.5 x 23.5 $7,500 |
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Seagulls oil
and acrylic
9.5 x 11.75 $3,200 |
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The Foreshore oil
and acrylic
15.5 x 47.25 $9,500 |
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Olivier Suire Verley's paintings
appeal to me on many levels. His work captures a pulsating
vibrancy in the midst of order and calm. No matter his
subject, there is a fluid energy running through all
of Verley's paintings that bring them alive. His palette
is always pure, his colors lively with a dash of unexpected
brilliance. His splash of flaming scarlet or blazing
orange draws the eye to the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Verley's paintings also have the remarkable ability to
transcend. They allow the viewer a thrilling journey
into "time and place" to glimpse the delightful
world that Mr. Verley inhabits.
— Cynthia Mohr
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Evening Light oil
and acrylic
11.75 x 28.5 $7,200 |
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Life in Blue oil
and acrylic
47.25 x 15.75 $9,600 |
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End of Season oil
and acrylic
45.5 x 28,75 $14,200 |
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La Marée oil
and acrylic
The Tide 15.75 x 31.5 $7,800 |
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Le Gallop oil
and acrylic
Galloping 6 x 31.75 $2,500 |
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Grand Marée II
Spring Tides II 10.5 x 28.75 $7,800 |
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Les Pins
Pine Trees 31.5 x 47 $12,000 |
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The reflections of life through his
eyes are wonderful images to live with. We believe him to be
an exquisite colorist. Our thoughts and eyes are always drawn
by his sense of flowing colored layers of abstraction that both
pull and shift the focus of the work: patterns overlaid onto
a subject become their own quilt and can lift, focus and deepen
our mood. The composition is in itself one layer of many and
transports the viewer to other places. We love Olivier's variety
of color, light and mood that compound the skill of his work.
It is always exciting to visit the layered-spaces that he inhabits
and we look forward to his continued progress through the world
abstract of pattern, color and light embodied in his paintings.
— Keith Carvounis & Barbara Braman
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Olivier
Suire Verley was
born October 2, 1952 in La Rochelle (on the Atlantic coast
of France, a historic site
of religious war between Protestants and Roman Catholics in
the XVIIth century) to a family of artists. His grandfather
Louis Suire was a renowned painter (Oliver added his mother’s
maiden name, Verley to his father’s name so as not to
be confused with his grandfather, whom he cherished and admired)
and his father Claude (now retired) was a publisher of art
books
and is an amateur painter himself.
Olivier studied in La Rochelle first, then in Tours with Jean
Abadie. Moving to Paris, he also studied etching with Pierre
Gandon, Albert Decaris and Caillevaert Brun. Of a surrealistic
tendency,
the themes of his paintings of the time were based upon evasion
from reality, fantastic travels and the sea. During that period,
the colors in his palette were dark and melancholic. He illustrated
texts by Cliford Simac and Assimov for the publisher Louis
Pauwels.
1982 marked a profound change in Olivier’s inspiration:
as by a refining process, it turned to become a quest for the
essentiality in life, leading the artist to discover the salutary
power of color. From that time onwards, his themes also changed;
landscapes, still-lifes, portraits and again, the ever-present
sea — the sea of Île de Ré — a
small island off La Rochelle. He left Paris definitively and
settled on that island,
where
he
lives and works today.
Since then, his inspiration has drawn first from the colors
of the holiday season in Île de
Ré and on the Atlantic coast
of France; then from those of Paris streets in winter or at
night, and more recently from the light of Morocco and Spain.
Today, Olivier seeks to meditate again on evasion, the eleswhere
of our dreams, of our regrets sometimes, and of our hopes forever.
Always looking for new lights, Olivier travels often: Italy
(Rome, Venice), Morocco, Spain, Egypt, Mauritius...
He has shown in Paris, Lyon and Tokyo.
His work is featured in the beautiful book, Ailleurs. |
Artist's Statement:
It was with excitement mingled
with apprehension when I came to the Cape four years ago,
at Helen Addison’s invitation, to show my work to her many
collectors — or should I say her friends, since Helen has the
rare gift to make her clients feel at home in her Gallery.
I was overwhelmed with joy by the warm
welcome my wife Anne-Marie, my long-time friend and agent
Jean-Philippe Ricard, his own wife Évelyne, and myself received
here —not to mention the added pleasure to see my paintings
appreciated (and bought!) by many connoisseurs. These feelings
were renewed two years ago at my second show on Route 28
and at the splendid party O.J. and John Murphy gave for us
on that occasion.
Today, I feel the same excitement as this third show is approaching!
It is always a great joy for an artist, even for seasoned one,
to meet the understanding of new people, as if making new friends;
this is particularly true for me with the American people,
thanks to Helen Addison’s dedicated energy. |
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“Somewhere else” could best define Olivier’s artistic approach.
His painting has always proceeded from his own life: the permanent
evolution of his feelings, the successive stages of his personal
quest for identity, the people he meets: in each of his works,
all that can be found.
Along the years, he has slowly left behind the anecdotic side
of his early watercolors and oil paintings, which portrayed
with a talent for romance and a discreet emotion his beloved
Ile de Ré, Venice, or the Languedoc; now, he reaches a deeper
and more subtle meditation, based on evasion towards the “somewhere
else” that everyone of us is longing for, that “somewhere else”
full of dreams, of regrets sometimes, of hopes ever and ever.
Olivier Suire Verley is a solar painter, craving for the vast
spectacle of life and eager to discover new atmospheres, new
sceneries: in each of them, he finds a teaching and, as an
alchemist, transmutes it in nuggets of pure joy for our eye
and mind.
Served by a masterly craftsmanship, this captivating stance
allows Olivier to transport us in a universe of ochres, yellows,
and reds mixed with subtle dark nuances — never black! asserted
with an evident pleasure: volumes and light captivate, trouble
and reassure us, all at the same time. Colorful figures stand
in the center or merely cross the painting, dreamlike, unreal,
but every one of them a strong presence.
We hear their steps drifting way, their laughs and their cries
fading in the distance; lilac shades are stretching in the
evening light: time to go home, one can smell the smokes from
the village, the harbor, or the camp, near enough for us to
feel its presence on the edge of the painting.
Somewhere else also means the circus ring, with horses, acrobats,
and a tragic, hapless clown; under the floodlights, the show
goes on, blazing with light, enchanting, magic.
Making us think, making us see, the artist today makes us
dream, far away from any anecdote: “a vagrant, his fists in
his pockets with holes in them”, Olivier Suire Verley has just
boarded the unknown shores, just made the discoveries that
he offers to share with us: intense and captivating, they will
live in our heart for a very long time.
— © Antoine
Moissac, 2007 (translation by J.Ph. Ricard)
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About
his beloved Île de Ré:
“For many a visitor, the name “Ile de
Ré” brings up visions
of clear, watery colors; on the contrary, I see in these sceneries
of sea and rural landscapes some very strong contrasts between
the exuberant greens of the vegetation, the blue limpidity
of the skies, and the brownish yellowness of the rocky paths:
all these violent tonalities splash my face like sprays sequined
by salt. Clusters of salt marshes at the sharp northwest end
of the island remain one of my preferred themes of paintings;
nearly abandoned nowadays, they provide an ideal shelter for
migratory birds. Water canals form with the marshes a patchwork
of mirrors separated by stretches of dry earth and parched
grass.”
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