Saype

Saype (born February 17, 1989, in Belfort, France) is a contemporary artist. He is known for creating ultra-realistic giant paintings in nature using a biodegradable paint he invented himself. In 2019, Forbes magazine ranked him among the 30 most influential people under 30 in art and culture.

==Biography== Guillaume Legros was born in Belfort on February 17, 1989, and grew up in Évette-Salbert, on the French-Swiss border. He trained as a nurse and practiced this profession in parallel with his artistic activity for nearly 7 years. He believes that being a nurse had an impact on his artwork by bringing him closer to "existential questions such as the suffering of the human being".