Gianfranco Abela

Biography

One thing I am sure about:in the last century I was born having a pencil in my hand. During the primary school, I was often caught by the teacher while making portraits of my mates, instead of paying attention to what was explained in the classroom. When at the junior high school, I illustrated the characters from Iliad and Odyssey to represent great fights among Ajax , Achilles, Hector etc., being inspired by my favourite cartoon hero: Superman!
When I was 15, I used the water colors for the very fist time, the picture was a mountain scenery with a small lake. Wow, I was just exploring my capability in painting
While growing up, I was warned by my parents plus relatives plus friends about the precariousness of living as a painter, thats why I decided to study to become an electronic engineer: electronics sounded to be the word to rule the future, at that time! So, while studying electronic matters, I started painting oil on canvas in my leisure time. I still remember my first Cezanne, sold at a real good price for me. I was 18 and I realized that my still-life (awful) pictures and friends portraits and landscape pictures could be sold after being exposed in the barber shop and the bar near home, after an...