Padrig, born in 1962 in Quimper and originally from Cast in Breton Cornwall, spent his early years across Germany, Senegal, and France before returning to Brittany. After working in the United Kingdom and northern France, he traveled to Sri Lanka in 1986 to study Buddhism, Pali, and Sinhalese—eventually settling there for nearly four decades.
Deeply influenced by both Buddhism and Hinduism, he later completed a degree in Tamil and Indian civilization in Paris. Though self-taught, Padrig began drawing to better understand religious symbolism, spending over 20 years painting Hindu and Buddhist themes. Over time, he explored connections between these traditions and his Celtic heritage, gradually incorporating Breton, Celtic, and Middle Eastern influences into his work while continuing to reinterpret Hindu iconography through Celtic design.
All his paintings are titled in Breton, honoring a language central to his cultural identity. Alongside his artistic practice, Padrig worked for 30 years with the International Committee of the Red Cross as an interpreter and humanitarian officer in Sri Lanka, as well as in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon. Today, he divides his time between Brittany and Sri Lanka.