Zebendo

My artistic approach has not been linear: there have been several stages.

I graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva in 1971, then spent a year at the Ecole de l'Image in Epinal, followed by a Lissignol prize in Geneva, which enabled me to go to Paris to take a course in plastic arts at Paris VIII Vincennes.

I've always painted alongside my part-time teaching. Since 2008, I've devoted myself exclusively to painting.

What has constantly guided me in my work as a whole is learning to observe, reinterpret, internalise, transpose and improvise from experience, if possible to the point of metaphor in my paintings.

The small drawings, in permanent felt-tip pen, I let myself be guided by a playful aspect, unlike my paintings. I call them 'little data banks'.

In this 'small Data Banks', I have chosen to present to you

The Seven Deadly Sins (see heady), small, playful drawings in A 4 permanent biros and coloured pencil. There is no particularly religious intention.