The brilliance of Azoulay's art centers on his ability to convey the purity of line to create strong illusions of fluid motion and life.

Upon acquiring two of Azoulay's etchings for their permenent collection, the chief curator of the Musee du Louvre in Paris reviewed him as "a young man whose varied and prolific works let us predict a very bright future for him."

Azoulay, a self-taught artist, was born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1949. His parents settled in Paris when he was ten. By the age of 13, he was sketching and selling drawings on the streets and planning his career as an artist.

As he met people from various parts of the world, his interest in traveling grew; when he was 14, he left home and hitchhiked across Europe to the Middle East. His desire to see and be part of the life, history and beauty of the world took him from Copenhagen to Rome, from Lisbon to Jerusalem. He made the world his university; people were his main subject with their joys and pains and ways of life. He became fluent in five languages.

Eventually, he settled in Israel in 1967, where he applied to Betzalel, the Middle East's most famous art academy. They rejected his application but this did not deter him from continuing his studies.

At this time he became interested in the theatre. He studied drama and graduated as an actor. He appeared in the Israeli production of the rock musical, "Hair," as well as other shows on the Israeli stage. Unable to share his time fully between the theatre and painting, he chose the latter.

His need to move on took him to London in 1970, and from there to Monte Carlo, Portugal, and finally back to Paris. In March of 1976, he arrived in California, where he presently resides in beautiful Bell Canyon amongst horses and riders-- a familiar subject to those who know his many etchings.

He is married to Charmaine Seal, a noted ballerina, yet another of Azoulay's favorite subjects. They have two children, a son Arnaud born in April of 1980 and Ondine, age three, who is the subject of an etching that is part of the collection of the bibliotheque Nationale du Louvre in Paris.