After many years in strategy consulting, India cut across my path in 2000 to transform me from a business advisor to a painter. Indeed, India’s so powerful, diverse, mysterious world, inspired me to embark on a long and exciting artistic journey.I have now been painting for about twenty years on a series of Indian themes: forts and ruins, people of India, landscapes and street scenery, Indian music, smart or mad cities and also Maharajas or Nawabs. More recently I have added the theme of pollution which is so agressive in India. My style is mostly figurative, sometimes abstract, in all types of formats and techniques. I also make intercultural cartoons.To the people of India, I try to offer impressions, glimpses of Indian subjects that perhaps they do not see that way. To Europeans, I hope to provide some insights on the fascination that India exerts on Western imagination. For more, please look at:https://www.instagram.com/michelfxtestard/www.micheltestard.com