MAURITIAN ARTIST - ARTISTE MAURICIEN
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I am a Mauritian artist who finds most of his inspiration from his island in the Indian Ocean. I was born in Mauritius in 1968 and spend most of my life close to its beautiful beaches and its lush tropical vegetation. My artist life started when I was 16 and I never stopped exploring the fascinating art world.
I love my island and most of my art revolves around that love. Since 2003, I have been working on my own painting style involving geometric shapes and bright colours. I called this style “Zafer.”
"Refusing the gloom of the world and painting happiness with vibrant colours."
That’s the soul of the "Zafer" style.
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The word “Zafer” comes from the Mauritian creole and is generally used to name something undefined or when one doesn’t know the name of a particular object...
Photo: Marie Lagesse
About me
"Courage and kindness, always."
It was in 2003 that I started working on a very colourful style of painting, accompanied by geometric shapes. The use of graphics in the Zafer style stems in part from a simplification of the painter Vincent Van Gogh's touches. The spirals and circular shapes that we find in his painting “Starry Night” and the almost geometric shapes of the painting “Dandelion Meadow” caught my attention and I wondered what a painting would look like in which these touches of paint were simplified. This is how I started making paintings with circles, spirals, squares, triangles, lines and dotted lines.
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Vectors
of happiness
Since childhood, I have always had the unpleasant feeling of being born in the wrong century or on the wrong planet. I am crossing our twenty-first century, like a fish lost in a forest! This is reflected more and more in my painting where I try to reproduce on canvas the world in which I would have liked to live. My painting style...
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MY STUDIO IN CUREPIPE
In the heart of Curepipe, my painting studio stands as a sanctuary of creativity. Filled with colors and brushes, it's where art comes alive. Step inside and be captivated by the magic of my creations on canvas. Welcome to my world of artistic expression. (Only by appointment)
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