Born in the Arcachon basin,self-taught, Patrick Da Costa has always wanted to translate his emotions, his memories, in gouache whilts still wearing short trousers, lead crayon was his first passion, charcoal and "black stone" in his early romances and pastel with the joys of fatherhood .His sources of inspiration are the Arcachon basin with his childhood memories, his garden and its serenity, the Dordogne is where he finds relaxation and Bordeaux, a historical town where everything take a different dimension in the night.