I am Alexandre Abyla, a Swiss self-taught painter.
I didn’t learn to paint in school — I learned through life, through silence, through observation.
Drawing was my first language.
For over 40 years, I’ve painted murals, walls, ceilings.
I’ve learned the discipline of craft, the mastery of materials, the respect for gesture.
But today, I no longer paint to imitate or to decorate.
I paint to speak.
My painting has become more direct, more intimate, more radical.
With the series Painting to Speak, I commit to revealing what often remains invisible:
the inner strength of women, their daily struggles, their presence, their truth.
I have no diploma to frame.
But I have thousands of hours of painting behind me — of inhabited walls, of crossed-out faces.
And one unwavering certainty:
I am a painter of truth. And as long as I have something to say, I will keep painting.
