Henri Lorenzi was born on the French Riviera. After a mixed education during which he split his time between working in his father’s restaurant and art classes at the Pavec Academy in Cannes, he decided to get involved full-time in the hospitality industry, thus working in quite a few parts of the globe, but always setting time aside to continue to practice his art.

In 1993, he opened a studio in Scotland and by 1995, was again working full time at his first love, oil painting, never forgetting the bright colours of his native south of France birthplace.