A self-taught artist, Paul Comarmond practiced and taught art in Mauritius for several years, winning several awards when still a teenager. When he moved to Canada, he discovered the works of Winslow Homer and other New England watercolorists and this revealed his true calling.

Fascinated by the possibilities and the challenges of watercolor as well as the chemistry involved in its making, Paul from then on devoted his life to the discovery of the medium. Watercolor remains his favourite art form.

Delacroix said it: “ I have never found transparency such as the one found in watercolors.” And as Paul himself puts it: “With no other art form can I obtain such freshness and lightness. There is something extremely sensuous about the fluidity of the water that lay down on paper the pigments of color with soft and gentle strokes.”

From May to July, 2004, Paul travelled the islands of the Indian Ocean where he gave a series of watercolor workshops and gathered images. From this stemmed a number of projects including an exhibit at  Wakefield, Quebec and a conference at York University in September 2004, “Voyage en mer indienne” at the Toronto Centre francophone.

He will also host a series of watercolour workshops in Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland in June 2007.