he moved to Port-au-Prince in 1971 and worked as a cashier before being encouraged to paint by Philton Latortue, himself a well-known painter and a distant cousin. His works were very well received and he sold his first paintings in 1972 at the Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince. His works are currently sold by galleries the world over. His paintings are mostly of scenes of rural life, depicting the lush and luxuriant vegetation of the Haitian countryside