Vieux Port de Marseille & Notre Dame de la Garde (2004) Painting by Cardoso Manu

Passionate about drawing since always, charcoal, tip mine, pen, and B&W photography have long been my favorite areas. Color and painting will only come later, first abstract then figurative, initiation stage or personal challenge? I free myself when the knife finally appears in free figuration. Then the integration of the pigments brings me 'the most' that I missed, the originality of the texture and the unique, pure and natural 'house' colors. I use ONLY quality materials and superior finishes (pure linen fabrics on superior quality frames, binders, oils and Sennelier pigments ..). The longevity and sustainability of my creations remain essential to me.

Mother Nature is my Muse, the one that I tirelessly machine-gun from all angles with a proven obsession with reflections and shadows. Photography, thanks to digital technology, has become my other creative room and remains THE visual and emotional database from which I draw inspiration ...

2004 | Pro Status: Opening of a Workshop-Gallery in Marseille, a few steps from the Old Port where I draw my inspiration. Creation and exhibition at the workshop open to the public; Some exhibitions in Marseille and outside (Cassis, Castelet and lyon).

2007 to 2019 | Cotation Drouot Referencing on the Dictionary 'Guid'Arts'.

2008 | Bandol (Var) where I exercise a double entrepreneurial activity: ready-to-wear boutique and artistic activity: creations, commissioning, exhibitions, craft market ...

2013 | Departure for Savoy, introduction to clay and digital art.
2019 | Akoun quotation - art guide 2020

Online virtual galleries on sites dedicated to art.

Digital art: Art prints in series limited to 30 prints (all formats combined).

Projects: opening of a new Art Shop.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1967
• Artistic domains: Works by artists with a certified artist value, Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Certified Artists Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists