A voodoo priest and one of the most extraordinary Haitian artists, Célestin Faustin studied and trained with Wilmino Domond, although he soon developed a style of his own, a haunting, poetic, hallucinatory, surreal and erotic one, earning the title of “first authentic surrealist of Haiti”. Most of his paintings tell stories set in forests and farmland revealing a deep personal anguish and a strong ambivalence towards voodoo beliefs.
