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Among music notes, paintbrush and fountain pen ! 

After a long career of high-level sportsman, who occupied me full time then and some international titles gleaned here and there, it is music and to writing songs lyrics that inspire me.

Then, I started to paint at the age of thirty five to challenge myself ! All my life, I liked to rebound and getting outside my confort zone. Because my famous painter friend, Chamizo, offered me my first canvas.

This surprising idea comes to me because I like paintings, real paintings. But I can not afford it. One day, while I wish to acquire a reproduction of the famous painting " the sunflowers" of Van Gogh, I decide to copy the artistic work. given the price of the photocopy. I made it with pastels, because I had nothing else. The result was encouraging ...

One year later, I met and sympathized with Sami Khorsandian. The persian calligrapher suggests take me under his wing for my debuts. Learning beside this master is a true revelation. Besides the teaching of some of his techniques, he shared with me his philosophy of life and, thanks to large conversation and friendship allows me to find my own pictorial way. Now I'm finally able to use my first canvas...

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In my paint, the black opposes almost always color, the rectilinear at the curve. But it is especially the words which serve me as sources of inspiration and as working bases. A kind of personal, minimalist, almost infantile calligraphy, inspired by notorious painters as Cocteau, Matisse and Mirò , which illustrates graphically voluntarily, or accidentally, the first sense given to the word, and which gives it others: yours. It is what I call in french my " tabl'mots".

Seeing paintings as a game in which people would try to find letters and to guess the words...

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