In colours veering from neon pink to swimming-pool turquoise and car-bonnet red, he conjures dancing abstractions, demonic spikes and angry mouths, with references bouncing from Juxtapoz magazine's tripped-out underground art to Francis Bacon's monstrous bodies.
Ampelopsis brevipedunculata is a dense, sturdy climber with vine-like leaves, curly pink tendrils, and the most astonishing fat, round berries, that emerge as an iridescent swimming-pool turquoise and fade to shades of lilac, purple and cream.
On a night last month, the pool glowed turquoise, steam rose 30 feet, and "Le Freak" by Chic played over the sound system.
The water temperature is about 58C and it flows through a series of small channels to feed into a pair of turquoise pools (the smallest pool has this high temperature; the larger pool is much cooler).
We reach a small waterfall, which cascades down yellow rocks into a round turquoise pool, La Poza Central.
In one mesmerising scene, Binoche dives into a turquoise pool under a glass skylight.
I found refuge beside a long turquoise pool at a sunny table at the hotel's outdoor cafe.
So health officials conducted tests at the fountain, where a 1941 sculpture, by Raymond Granville Barger, has whimsical bronze-cast creatures spitting arcs of water into a turquoise pool.
+33 4 9092 3932, mascornud.com Château les Bruyères in Cambremer is a house full of treasures and personality: orchids on the table, modern art on the walls, red-carpeted corridors and fine repro furniture: outside are several acres of parkland and a turquoise pool.
Half an hour passes, and then a waiter brings you downstairs to a courtyard, where your table stands between a fountain and a narrow pool filled with turquoise water.
