Father: Italian painter

Mother: Creole dancer

Jeanjoel spatafora was born on the Caribbean isle of Guadeloupe and raised in the islands, Italy, France, Bolivia, and the United States. He is a vortex of creativity that is as varied as his surroundings.

He is a passionate artist, taught in life. A unique talent to find teachers in great artists as well as the nature, the work place and the common person, his deep understanding of human perspective offers an intrinsic emotional tableau through the gift of composition and color. His work is a sometimes complex union of raw sensuality and a deep, natural spirituality. Bright colors and extraordinary texture pull you into a fantasy where the vibrant vitality of living ebbs and flows through the creative and sometimes analytic meditations on both nature and the human condition. This ride is a flow as varied as the waters be they calm or enveloped in storms. The viewer is entranced into the miasma of her own inner revelation.

The onlooker is drawn into his magical world scented by tropical spice as a bird is led into the inner forest where the trees and the vines are never the same. These pieces offer the public an experience as varied as they are.

—"David showed me how to see, Victor showed me how to paint." When I went to school to study art, I lost my innocence. This journey was both sad and joyful. I gained all the skills and retained all of what the Masters have left us. Now I had to forget everything I knew and paint with my childhood innocence and use my new found skills as a way to express what I feel.