Élon Brasil was born in 1957 in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, 
where at the age of 6 he began to sketch with crayons. In 1969 at the age of 12 he won his first award after moving to Sao Paulo.
Today his figurative and abstract works are inspired by the images of his country’s Indian, African and Caboclos (mixed race) people surrounded by outstanding colours and textures. His themes aim to emphasise and preserve the Brazilian culture and its variety of roots. Élon himself is descended from African, Brazilian, Indian, Italian and Portuguese. He has spent time living with the Indians and Africans in Brazil and also studied the magic of Candomble (an Afro-Brazilian religion). These insights have given him the ability to imprint on his canvases, the habits, situations and emotions that distinguish each of these cultures.
The son of painters, Élon started out early in the arts but his interest for African, Indian and of cangaço (a very peculiar kind of rural banditry in the northeastern part of Brazil, it is mystical and somewhat related to class struggle) was only awakened after a trip to Bahia in his teenage years. Painting, he rescues his own roots, formed by a very Brazilian blending.
Mystical, he also has added an infinite language with icons and symbols in Aramaic, Sanskrit and Hebrew. Another detail is the technique that he uses in his art. Starting out from coffee and spice bags of Saudi Arabia, India and other countries, he adds a special resin and creates a rustic canvas that match his themes perfectly.
