Mela

United Kingdom  • 1940

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My name is Moktar El Agili. I sign my paintings with the pseudonym "Mela" which is a contraction of my name. I was born in 1940 and spent my first 20 years in Tunisia. Thanks to a scholarship from the government, I left to France to attend the University in Paris. Upon graduation, I joined a weekly magazine based in Paris as a reporter on North African affairs. Then I moved to a north American company where I was given the challenge to develop and grow their business in the Middle East. I lived in Beirut, Cairo, Cyprus, Racine in the USA and finally settled in London where I retired. I wrote a book about my life (so far) and then happily went to painting.


During most of my early life, from grammar school to university and well after, I was interested mainly in math, engineering, cosmology, chemistry and generally in all those things, where accuracy, precision and hard facts are the substance. It was only when my career as a business executive started to wind down,  that I discovered literature, Jazz and Art. It was by painting in particular that I felt most attracted. I started watching painting sessions on TV and took a few courses. But the real spark happended when I started watching our friend Gernot Kissel painting from live. Gernot was a German expressionist painter. Looking at him, fully immersed in his colours, brushes and palettes, breathing heavily, looking from time to time, with lust at his subjet/model, walking forward to his easel and throwing his rapid successive strokes on the canvas, producing a scratchy noise.


It is my pleasure, today, to show a few of my works, starting with flowers, through Artsper, impressed to find myself among many talented painters from all over the world. I feel so fortunate.

Tunisia


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All artworks of Mela
Painting, Eruption, Mela

Eruption

Mela

Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

$593

Painting, Horizontal 4, Mela

Horizontal 4

Mela

Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch

$395 $356

Painting, Horizontals 1, Mela

Horizontals 1

Mela

Painting - 14.6 x 9.8 inch

$395 $356

Painting, Horizontals 3, Mela

Horizontals 3

Mela

Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch

$461

Painting, Horizontals 2, Mela

Horizontals 2

Mela

Painting - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch

$395 $356

Painting, ....they are coming for tea!!, Mela

....they are coming for tea!!

Mela

Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch

$329

Painting, Rote Tulpen, Mela

Rote Tulpen

Mela

Painting - 15.7 x 11 inch

$527 $474

Painting, Landscape 1, Mela

Landscape 1

Mela

Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch

$461

Painting, Blumenstueck 5, Mela

Blumenstueck 5

Mela

Painting - 13.8 x 11 x 0.8 inch

$461

Painting, Blumenstueck 2, Mela

Blumenstueck 2

Mela

Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch

$461 $415

Painting, Blumenstueck 4, Mela

Blumenstueck 4

Mela

Painting - 17.7 x 13.8 x 0.6 inch

$435 $391

Painting, Blumenstueck 3, Mela

Blumenstueck 3

Mela

Painting - 15 x 11 inch

$395

Painting, Blumenstueck 1, Mela

Blumenstueck 1

Mela

Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 inch

$395 $356

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Who is the artist?

My name is Moktar El Agili. I sign my paintings with the pseudonym "Mela" which is a contraction of my name. I was born in 1940 and spent my first 20 years in Tunisia. Thanks to a scholarship from the government, I left to France to attend the University in Paris. Upon graduation, I joined a weekly magazine based in Paris as a reporter on North African affairs. Then I moved to a north American company where I was given the challenge to develop and grow their business in the Middle East. I lived in Beirut, Cairo, Cyprus, Racine in the USA and finally settled in London where I retired. I wrote a book about my life (so far) and then happily went to painting.


During most of my early life, from grammar school to university and well after, I was interested mainly in math, engineering, cosmology, chemistry and generally in all those things, where accuracy, precision and hard facts are the substance. It was only when my career as a business executive started to wind down,  that I discovered literature, Jazz and Art. It was by painting in particular that I felt most attracted. I started watching painting sessions on TV and took a few courses. But the real spark happended when I started watching our friend Gernot Kissel painting from live. Gernot was a German expressionist painter. Looking at him, fully immersed in his colours, brushes and palettes, breathing heavily, looking from time to time, with lust at his subjet/model, walking forward to his easel and throwing his rapid successive strokes on the canvas, producing a scratchy noise.


It is my pleasure, today, to show a few of my works, starting with flowers, through Artsper, impressed to find myself among many talented painters from all over the world. I feel so fortunate.

Tunisia

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When was Mela born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1940