Artist: Jean-Paul Loppo Martinez
Title: La Veste Brodee
Edition Size: Artist Handsigned and Numbered to 150
Medium: Textured Giclee on Board
Image Dimensions: 30" x 24"
About the Art: Born in a village in Brittany in the west of France, artist Jean-Paul Loppo Martinez artistic ability circumvents the traditional.

From the time his young hands could hold a writing implement Martinez was creating art. His mother enrolled him in an art school at the age of seven, and five years later he enrolled himself into the Fine Arts School of Versailles. At the age of 16 he was accepted to the Estienne School of Artistic and Industrial Graphics in Paris, and found his niche in engraving.

Under the direction of engraver and former director of the Maeght studios Robert Dutrou, Martinez found himself inspired and in the presence of greatness. Working with some of the fine names in art – Picasso, Miro, Tapies, Adami, and Max Pappart among many others, it didn’t take long before Martinez had easily established himself as an acclaimed engraver and artist. Driven to discover, he also found success as a musician, producer and scriptwriter, living by the self-proclaimed philosophy that “an artist need to possess not only cultural, but also creative maturity.”