Blue Souls — artwork #534 by fkdl · Paris, France

Franck Duval, known as FKDL, is a French artist born in Paris in 1963. He studied fashion design at Studio Berçot and trained in circus arts at Annie Fratellini's national school — two formative experiences that shaped his enduring feel for colour, clothing and movement. In the mid-1980s he turned to painting, creating characters in acrylic and ink, and began exhibiting in 1992 at alternative Pari…

Michael Beerens is a French urban artist and professional diver born in 1984, based in the Paris region. As a teenager he began painting in public spaces in the late 1990s within the graffiti movement, part of the first generation of Parisian writers. In 2007 a serious motorcycle accident left him hospitalised for nearly six months — a period that led him to shift his practice toward more illustra…

Nosbé is a French urban artist based in Paris, a member of the PPA crew (Petites Peintures entre Amis — Little Paintings Among Friends), a collective from the southern suburbs of Paris. His practice sits halfway between graffiti and street art, guided by the Latin motto "Nulla dies sine linea" — no day without a line. He met Shaka (Marchal Mithouard), founder of the DKP crew, at fine arts school i…