Roland Saint Hubert: Constantly re-inventing himself

Roland St-Hubert - Biography
Born 12.29.1951 in Port-au-Prince HaitiHigh School: Lycee Toussaint and PetionStudied at Académie des Beaux Arts.Exhibited in Haiti, US, France, Canada, Venezuela and Japan.
Preferred color: purple
St. Hubert started painting at the age of 15. His uncle, the famous Emmanuel Ducasse had encouraged him and his brothers to paint. Like many before him, he studied Arts at Foyer des Arts Plastiques and The Academie des Beaux Arts in 1974. Later, under the advice of Tiga (Jean Claude Garoute) , he became a keen observer of the St. Soleil movement and style and he experimented with the motifs, colors and themes of that genre. Nevertheless St. Hubert will carefully take his time to explain to you he is not part of that School.
"I am not [part of] St. Soleil. St.Soleil was an attempt to return to intuitive painting whereby peasants who had ho art background would be given material and encouraged to paint. What they produced was thought to be inspired by Loa spirits. I am different. I was a witness of that experiment, and admittedly in some ways a portion of my pieces were inspired by St. Soleil, but I am an inventor and what I produced is a result of research and study of new styles"
"The journey to find one self, one's style needs a departure point. Many times, that point is in someone else's work. In art school we study impressionism, cubism. Picasso, Dali etc. An artist needs to copy imitate even, to begin a search, but after years of work, you must arrive at a style that is yours proper". " In my case, I am universal in my style."
Indeed, Roland St.