RESUME
After finishing high school, mathématic section, he spent two years in architecture school of Paris. Then he decided to become a painter in 1979. He left France to travel to Rome Athens and Crete.In 1981, he returned to Paris to attend the Goetz academy, studying drawing, painting and engraving.
1981 – 1983: Engraver at pasnic studio in Paris, Carborendum technic with famous artists : Goetz, Coignard, Papart et Barcelo.
1984 – 1986: Set designer with valérie Armande dance company. Assistant for the painter artist Paul lemercier.
1987 – 1989: Assistant for Serge Lutens, Sisheido commercials movies. Assistant for the sculptor artist Mihaï Popa in N.Y.
1990 – 1997: Set designer for french movies.Travel in Japan,then back in Paris, to get maried with the movie producer Sophie Révil, get 2 daughters. He exhibits and write scripts.
1998: Left Paris to St Martin,turn his name to Paul Elliott and return to figurative art.
2000-2005: Art professor for St Martin high school. He created Art Lovers association. A fifty group of artists to promote St Martin as an island of artists. Open door week end of studios and art galleries once a year and other artists group exhibitions.
2005: He stops teaching to open the art gallery “ Tropismes gallery” in Grand Case.
2011: Currator of the exhibition ” La nouvelle figuration antillo-guyanaise autour de Georges Rohner” . The show has been presented in; St Martin, St Barthélémy, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane and Paris sponsored by BDAF bank.
2014: Coordinator and decorator of the show ‘Orfeo negro’, musical comedy produced by the European Social Fund.
2015: Murals in Saint Martin.
2017: Live in St Domingo.
PERMANENT GALLERY
ORIGINALS :
- TROPISMES gallery, port de vallée, Blaison St Sulpice
- Lynne BERBAUMM gallery,Sandy ground, Anguilla BWI
REPRODUCTIONS :
- Galerie PEANUT, Saba
- J’adore SXM,Grand Case, ST Martin FWI
EXHIBITIONS
1991
- Galerie Beriem Engel, Luxembourg.
1992
- Casa dos contos, Ouro Preto Brésil.
1993
- Restaurant la Coupole, Paris.
1995
- Galerie Procréart, Paris
1997
- Puck Building – Gala de la fondation AMFAR, New York
- Usine Médicalex, Paris
- Galerie Noda, Fukuoka, Japon
1999
- Galerie de L’amandier
- Galerie Myaki,Fukuoka, Japon
2000
- Galerie Schweitzer Luxembourg
- Galerie La Hune Paris, Musée de St Martin
- Galerie sur le port, St Barth
- Galerie de L’Amandier, St Martin
2001
- Four season Hotel, Nevis
- Galerie Mosera, St Martin
- Galerie Devonish, Anguilla
- Galerie sur le port, St Barthélémy
2002
2003
- Bagdad Galerie, Saint barthélémy
- Savannah Galerie, Anguilla
2004
- Atelier des tropismes inauguration,Rétrospective.
- Savannah Galerie, Anguilla
- Grand case beach club, St Martin
- Café des arts, Nevis
2005
2006
- Woods Gallery, St Jon’s Antigua
2007
- Bagdad gallery – St Barth
2008
2009
2010
2011
- La nouvelle figuration Antillo-guyannaise, BDAF, Pointe à Pitre Guadeloupe.
- La nouvelle figuration Antillo-guyannaise, BPCE Building, Paris.
- Galerie l’encadrier, Cayenne Guyane
- Bibliothèque Schoelcher, Fort de France Martinique
- Hotel collectivité de St Barth
- Tropismes gallery, St Martin
2012
- Jumby bay island, Antigua
- Harmony hall gallery, Antigua
- The Cliff, St Martin
2018
ART FAIR
1992 : ARTE New York – E. L. D.
1993 : SAGA Paris- E. L. D.
1994 : SAGA Paris- Editions Laurier Dubé, Montréal.
1995-96 : ART MULTIPLE – Dusseldorf.
PRESS ARCHIVES
PRESSE 25 ANS DE PEINTURE
Publication du livre Caribbean shadows pour les 25 ans de peinture
FEMME MAGAZINE PARIS
12 signes astrologiques pour le mensuel Femme
NISHINIPON SHINBUM
Takako Tamagawa interview sur le millenium
DAILY HERALD SINT MARTEEN
Painter exhibits Art in office furniture shop
SAINT MARTIN’S WEEKS
Expo Ewotik au musée de St Martin Fev 2000
TEXTE FORMES PEINTES / CUT OUT – TECHNIQUE ET ARCHITECTURE
Jean François Pouce 1992, les 10 ans de peinture de Denis Thuleau.
LUXEMBOURGER WORT
Enrico Lunghi à propos de l’expo à la maison Beim Engel.