Mala is my signature. My name is Maurice Lagarde, and I live and work in the Gard region in southern France.

Talking about oneself is never easy, so I shall hand over to Mary TERPE who wrote as follows in one of her articles:

"MALA's work and life operate in harmony; He experiences both to the full, constantky varying the rhythm and the tone. Sometimes his painting seems to float in a  tide of perception and suggestion. His art is abstract, though it passed at one point through representations reminiscent of Modigliani. The result has been a new manifestation of his perceived reality, lying somewhere between the past and the present. His painting invites us to follow his meanderings towards unexpected situations where emotions lie in wait, highly visible, inviting us to join them on this journey-a journey along a beautifully floral path which is nonetheless riddled with hidden pitfalls.
However the road to follow is always there, omnipresent, energetically beckoning us into its love-suffused universe".