About

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, Pincemin, 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/BPCE bank.

2014 : Coordinator and decorator of the show ‘Orfeo negro’, musical comedy produced by the European Social Fund.

2015 : Permanently showed at Tropismes gallery. Murals in Saint Martin.

2017 : Live in St Domingo. Solo show at Quinta Dominica foundation.

2018 : Solo show at Museo de Santiago de los caballeros.

2021 : Tropismes gallery moves to France in Anjou.

2024 : Publication of the book Caraïbbean cabins