"PSYCHE" Exhibition in Montjoi :   Oeuvres de Françoise Delmas, Guy Lombal et Mia (Marie) Lombal-Bent.

La Dépêche du Midi, mercredi 14 août, 2002

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“Through Lombal’s dream ... we do not escape ourselves or our world,but rather we are brought into harmony with ourselves and with our world. They take us beyond mere fancy into vision. They put us in touch with deep and radiant places of the heart. And yet they do this not without whimsy and playfulness... Lombal’s dream is one in which everything is in metamorphosis, is fluid, and yet nothing is blurred or vague. These works compel us to look, to look closely, to surprise our eyes again and again as they discover some new, carefully wrought detail. The fluidity shows itself in Lombal’s use of colour. We may not usually dream in colour, but his dream invites us to yield to the seductions of colour – from those deep, magical, transfiguring blues, to the muted yet rich, suffusing yellows...the startlingly cool and restful green... the subtle nuances of black and white... That dream is alive. In it we participate in a transcendent, a divine ecology. That is the ultimate point of the metamorphosis – the oneness of all things, a harmony that is both terrestrial and cosmic”. Professor Edward Baugh

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Timeless beauty... "Like Baudelaire Guy Lombal is convinced that : “The beautiful is bizarre.” Like André Breton he is haunted by “the all-pervading power of dreams”. But in his dream-world, dream and reality are no longer mutually exclusive realms. Instead they become the co-inventors of a new super-reality buried deep within our carapace. For him it is the quest and the discovery of this new reality that create its incomparable excitement." « Lombal is something of a magician... his span is the whole planet Earth, and his focus “Everyman”. His work exudes a profound reverence for “the spirit within”. The paintings are an eloquent testament to Lombal’s endless quest for spiritual renewal and the beauty that resides in all vibrant civilisations, whether long-vanished or still emerging”. The Gleaner 1990

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