Paris-born dAKOTA is a widely travelled painter with lot of highly acclaimed paintings to his name, as well as numerous reportages in magazines such as Hard and Heavy, NY Indie art rock, Marie Miami, Met Home, Sud-Ouest, Club et concerts Bordeaux. His keen eye for life, people and light has taken his on fruitful journeys to USA, Italy, Spain, England and France where several of his creations have been centered.

Now living in Bordeaux,he has incorporated portraits into his site, bringing to them the same sensitivity and observant eye, capturing the magic moment. dAKOTA is currently working on some new project about the time.

dAKOTA won awards in many events like this in the Museum of Beaux-Arts and the Royal West of England Academy Bristol, UK with this picture "Bristol Bordeaux in 1997 for 50 years of twinning Bordeaux / Bristol.

When I was young, so young person, I tried to play in a kind of group of rock'n'roll arty, about 1974, the Blind' S Dream in Bordeaux. No chance to find a possible recording of our services between Pink Floyd and Soft Machine while passing by Hawkwind, but who knows?

At that time, we were at the one decade end of summer of love. And as an old Indian tradition we chose a new name for each one among us. My dreams of teenager were a mixture to become a rock'n'roll star sort of Jagger and Lou Reed, or to be a monk, Tibetan as T Lobsang Rampa, or a writer of the style of Selby or Bukowsky.

And then of course being controls like a kind of hero of the second world war. I was fascinated by a transport aircraft not disappeared yet, DAKOTA called also DC3. Here is thus the result of this mixes elegant and I became a hero of my novels and poems ever published: Darine DAKOTA.