Levoy Exil was born in Fermathe, Haiti in 1944. He was a original member, and one of the best-known artists to emerge from the “Saint Soleil” school - an art movement initiated in the early 70’s.Peasants in a mountain community who had never painted before were given art materials in an experiment on spirituality, spontaneity and art. The results were astonishing, leading the French novelist and art historian André Malraux, on a trip to Haiti, to conclude that Vodun spirits had possessed, and were guiding, the artists in the creation of the paintings.
Most of Exil’s works are mystical in nature. He constantly taps the sources of voodoo and looks for his true roots in his own dreams. He believes in reincarnation, is haunted by the story of Atlantis and relates to the memory of the Arawak Indians more strongly than to his African ancestors.

The artist has participated in many Saint Soleil exhibits including major shows in Rome, Italy; Paris, France; Bonn, Germany; as well as in Haiti and the U.S. He is featured in publications on Haitian Art, including “Haiti Art Naif” and “Where Art is Joy” by Selden Rodman.

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Kens Cassagnol. was born in Port-au-Prince in 1965. His father was a cabinetmaker, his mother, seamstress, he has two brothers and a sister. He studied as far as the 9th grade and left school to work with his father. He painted floral arranging on metal, and also worked as a tailor. In 1981 at the age of 16 years old, Cassagnol did his first painting. He has not attend any art school but has read many books on art. He appreciates foreign artists Americans and the French especially. He specialize in fruits and animated by landscape. Kens Cassagnol has participated in collective exhibitions in Port-au-Prince and in France. He lives in Delmas, Port-au-Prince with his wife and four daughters.

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Abbot Bonhomme was born by the sea - in Baie des Moustiques in northwest Haiti -on August 13th 1963. In his childhood he spent a great deal of time fishing and farming with his father, and consequently lived in intense communion with nature.

Albott Bonhomme has studied at Maximilien Coicou School in his home town, in northwest Haiti. Later in 1985 he graduated as an industrial mechanic from the Technical and Commercial Training School of Port-au-Prince. At the age of 12, he developed a passionate interest in painting. He started to paint natural subjects. For example, Bonhomme paints vibrantly colored birds in an environment of tropical rain forest.

Bonhomme's professional career as a painter started in 1990 , and since then his art has been exhibited around the world, especially in Europe, Asia, and the United States. But it is in Paris and in Tokyo (Gallery Bunkamura) that Abott Bonhomme has received his biggest success.

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