David Azul

"Only one thing better than a solo surf session, I'm thinking as I stroke back outside, and that's a session with a good friend."

My approach is simple, it is about producing a work that allows you to connect to a place, a moment, even a story. And these places, moments and stories are the ones that I love the most. Those one that have to do with surf sessions, the light of the coast, but also the mountains and sometimes exotic places.

I am a geograph/cartograph by training. My base is drawing, graphic design and technical photography of cartography and travel. Today it is the drawing/watercolor technique that I use the most. If watercolor is a difficult medium that requires discipline, it is the one that best captures the dazzling light of the ocean and the mountains.

This technique also makes it possible both to respect a drawing framework and to open up the field of possibilities for interpretation thanks to the magic of watercolor. Because the final experience depends half on the medium provided by the painter and half on the imagination and poetry of the observer.

Geographic Science National School - IGN (Institut Géographique National)