An international traveller by the age of twenty, Marcel's hands became sought after by connoisseurs of abstract wood sculpture. Today, his works adorn some of the finest private yachts and sloops that navigate the globe.
After completing a commission to create a series of Pharaonic-style furniture
for a private collector in the United States, Marcel embarked on an international tour. His
travels throughout Africa and Indonesia greatly influenced his work in the
ensuing years. Shortly thereafter, he settled Thoreau-like in a utopian forest
near New Caledonia, and had no human contact for over two years. This absolute
monasticism helped to clear his troubled soul of that which he had witnessed.
He experimented with wood sculpture combined with welded metals to express
in his art, and to demonstrate to the Western world, that the tragedy
of the plight of women still exists today in the third world.In 2003, Marcel settled in a tiny Pacific fishing village in Costa Rica. There he found Mother Nature in her finest raiment - where the tropical forest meets the boundless sea. This abundant ecosystem inspired him to great achievement. Through the medium of the exotic native woods available, he has expressed the female form in what he believes to be her true glory, as the giver and nurturer of life and beauty.
In his latest collection of wood sculpture, Marcel celebrates the sensual harmony of nature intertwined in this delicate ecological system.
