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Didier Civil lives in Jacmel, Haiti, a southern coastal town renowned for its carnival celebrations. He developed an interest in papier mâché at a very young age and learned about this art forme by studying Lyonel Simonis, a master artist and pioneer of papier mache mask making.

Didier is a celebrated artist and mask maker in his own right. Civil makes fantastical to realistic paper mache masks and costumes, larger than life portraits and imaginative animals. He also creates one-of-a-kind portraits as well as figures representing Haitian historical and cultural personalities. Some of these figures are larger than life, all lyrical, unique and imaginative work in paper mache.