VALÉRY PAUL
Biography
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Valéry-Paul Guichon was born in 1964 in Annecy, France. He spent his childhood between Switzerland and France. An only child, raised alone by a depressed mother, he escaped his gloomy life through drawing and painting. At a very early age, he left the family home, where the atmosphere was harmful to him, to attend boarding school at a hotel management high school. In this new environment, he excelled: his boundless imagination and culinary talents enabled him to graduate at the top of his class. He began his career as a chef in Lausanne.
He then settled in German-speaking Switzerland, Cannes, Paris, and Los Angeles.
He spent two decades working in banking in Geneva, where the routine quickly became boring, and where he rediscovered that it was when he was connected to art—on behalf of his clients and bosses—that he felt alive.
Having been exiled from creativity for too long, and determined to live his true life finally, Valery-Paul left Geneva and banking in 2019 to settle in Las Vegas, Nevada, a city that combines eccentricity and mineral calm, inspiring him to communicate to others the whirlwind of life, with its gently colored sides and its exhilarating and explosive ones.
ART
Valéry Paul let the spectator the possibility to appreciate the beauty of a single art piece broken in several pieces.
The topics he enjoys sharing are the joy of life, using bright colors as well as the darkness of humanity, more obscure and dark.
HIS CANVAS
Very conscious about environment, Valéry Paul builds his own canvas, carefully choosing his tools and using recycled materials. He takes time and care to make them while he thinks about his next project.
STUDIO
Valéry Paul currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, a city full of eccentricity that gives him even more ideas for his already overflowing creativity.