Let me tell you about the gallery

Let me tell you about the gallery.

I started working at the gallery festival arts since after my first individual exhibit in 2010.

It all started when I brought my paint to fix a painting...and I just stayed to paint and naturally talk to the visitors and clients and I sold paintings...hahahah.

I hang painting, which I like doing very much....I get to choose what I want to hang and we try to be fair and have at least one painting of the 220 artists of the gallery. I’m the last recruit number 220... Funny the number of paintings of one artist depends mostly on the size.

I also do a rotation every once in a while to give other pieces a chance and to get new inspirations or ideas. There’s only one room where we rarely touch anything...the masters room…mostly dead famous artists, like Bernard Sejourne, Lazard, Cedor.....

It's incredible how I always find something new in the gallery, a model when I’m working on a new theme.

I always say a painting sells itself and I have nothing to do with it...a visitor asked me once, how come I wasn't trying to make him buy something and I told him that he had to fall in love with art just like a woman because he would have to live with it even in the bad days. He was really surprised of my answer...

There are people who buy art just for the name…like an investment...I think that’s ridiculous you should buy what you like...sometimes they don’t even choose and they call and say to send them a "somebody" and they choose by price. What if they don’t like the painting?

I have so many paintings that I love in the gallery and if they sell I will literally cry...

I am so lucky; I get to know the artwork of my country and the artist behind them.

They are becoming my friends. After each exhibition I gain new artist friends like Rachel Scott, Dominique Ambroise, Gregory Vorbe, the last one Klebert Obas. They are always teaching me something new…and since I have all my materials there…I get to work with them, they show me new techniques and applications....we interact and exchange and learn from each other.

I’ve been trying to get out of this country as long as I can remember to go experience the world and study and live freely.

Nope that didn't happen but now I know I’m in the best school of art and life I could ever be.