Guillaume A. Azoulay

Guillaume Azoulay, a self-taught artist, was born in Casablanca, Morocco in 1949. His parents settled in Paris when Azoulay was ten and by the age of thirteen, he was sketching and selling his drawings on the streets and planning his career as an artist. The brilliance of Azoulay's art centres on his ability to convey a purity of individual lines intricately joined to create an overpowering illusion of fluid motion and life. Line is the key element of design in his artwork. Often, an entire artwork will be created without ever lifting pen from paper, using a single, unbroken line. It is through his lines that Azoulay creates balance, harmony, contrast, depth and movement in each one of his compositions. Azoulay has twice been accepted to the permanent archives of the Louvre Museum in Paris, and at age 29 years, was the youngest artist to have ever achieved that honour.