Born in Tunisia (North Africa) in February 1967, My earliest memories of the creative process are of myself sitting at a school desk at the age of six or seven, drawing on pieces of paper. Other members of my family are also artistically inclined.

I lived in Tunisia until the age of sixteen, then moved to Paris, France to finish high school and to attend the renown architecture school Beaux Arts.

Even though I had been influenced by many artists from several different movements, I feel that my cultural background has given me the greatest inspiration, being born and raised in Tunisia. This North African country is boarded by the Mediterranean sea, right in the middle of a melting pot of civilizations: Phoenician, Carthaginian, Roman, African, Arab, Muslim, Andalousian, and European, especially French.

I taught myself painting in the same way someone teaches himself or herself a musical instrument. A mixture of influences taken from all my favorite artists and working from my own individual observations. By observing I have developed my own style, which progresses as logic dictates, fostering harmony between what’s been done and what’s to come.

When I paint, my primary concern is color and content. I love the conflict between rushes of vibrant color and bold, stark lines. Color gives roundness to a surface, depth in the feeling of a surface, color is the rhythm, from a mood of a picture.

When I paint I try to make the ordinary more extraordinary, each work being a feeling of my personal state of mind at that time. I have always been fascinated by humanity, the erotic and sensual nature of life, the religious and spiritual side of human beings, the tragedies of people, and the urge to carry on regardless.
Spending so much time intellectualizing or planning a painting is my last concern. My work is sometimes spontaneous and sometimes planned, but always symbolic; it gives the viewers a freedom of imagination and an open interpretation.

I am very open to new techniques and new media. I have also been experiencing with photography and digital art for years and will continue to do so.

My favorite artists are: Picasso, Dali, Kandinski, Mandrian, Malevitch, Giacometti, Delaunay, Pollock, Klee, Klimt, Da Vinci, Chagall, Warholl, and many others.

Today, my work is exhibited in Tunisia, USA, France, Morocco, Japan, Italy, and England.

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