Akshay Kumar Seebaluck studied Fine Arts at Karnataka Chitrakala Parisath, Bangalore and completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya,Khairagarh University India and was graduated with a Master degree in Painting in same university. He has been awarded a Gold Medalist for B.F.A at the I.K.S.V.V University. Akshay has been working in continuous guidance of his father, artist, Chayetan Seebaluck at the Raphael Art Galerie, Mauritius.

Akshay’s philosophy “Nature is the only master who helps to create a real piece of art, without nature the ideal art wouldn’t have existed." It is in India at the Khairagarh University that he has found the true sense of painting, where he was surrounded by nature with a really artistic environment where his passion for painting arose. He has been working with watercolour, gouache, acrylic, ink, charcoal and mix media. Currently exploring the diverse abstraction in art, his artworks are based on his journey in the art field, in which he is continuously implementing new ideas and experimenting new media to it. There are different series which he has done concentrating on different medium like, colors, waste materials and light projection.

Akshay is in permanent exhibitions at the Galerie Raphael, Pointe aux Cannoniers, Mauritius. Some of his other exhibitions are as follows:

• Watercolour Group Exhibition at the I.K.S.V.V. University Khairagarh, India
• Duo Exhibition in Mauritius at the Alliance de Français, Belle Village, Mauritius
• Group exhibition at International Kala Mela 2017, New Delhi ,IGNCA, India
• “Crash” : 9/11 and its aftermath, installation art commemorating 9/11curated by Johny M L, at I.K.S.V.V Khairagarh,India
• Curated Khairagarh Ink Festival in collaboration with Inktober at I.K.S.V.V.
• Artwork Exhibited at the Kochi Biennale 2018-2019
• Artwork Exhibited at Mauritius International Art Fair 2019

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Howard Bilton is Chairman and founder of The Sovereign Group – one of the world’s largest privately owned consultancies specialising in the provision of offshore trusts and companies and associated international tax advice. Howard holds a joint honours BA degree in classics and law from the University of Keele and is qualified as a Barrister and called to the Bars of England/Wales and Gibraltar. He currently lives and works in Hong Kong.

He is a regular contributor of articles to The Telegraph and Financial Times.

He is a visiting non-resident professor at Texas A and M University where he assists with their LLM and Masters degrees in International Tax and Offshore Centres.

In 2003 he formed The Sovereign Art Foundation Limited, now registered in Hong Kong, Singapore, Guernsey, South Africa and the UK.

He is the principal of Hillvalley Limited, which since 2005 has been making wine in Portugal, this is sold throughout the world under the Howard’s Folly brand name. 

Evan Sohun is a multifaceted and resourceful Mauritian artist, instilled with a strong artistic signature whose influences stem from the various creative stages of his life. He has been paving the way in the creative world since the age of 16, persisting in an eager and curious exploration of new methods for developing his art. Evan’s collection of creative undertakings include the publication of numerous animated book designs and magazine covers, as well as joint and solo art exhibitions and cultural festivals at local, regional and international levels.

Represented in Mauritius by Imaaya Art Gallery, his focus today is painting on canvas and paper, and the creation of appealing wall murals for city centres. Evan’s belief – that art is a powerful way to trigger effective social change when channelled appropriately – has led him to conduct workshops for the vulnerable communities of Mauritius, in close collaboration with regional schools and community advocates. His purposefully disordered and burlesque style is often stroked in carefully chosen warm and bright colours, and highlighted by interesting graphic visual effects, so that his compositions achieve an assertive balance of line, colour, and space.

www.evansohun.com