1984 was my first encounter with an electronic palette, that was on Imagina, annual festival on computer graphics (CG) that takes place in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. an exhibition of new technology.

Where they demonstrated how one could draw on an electronic palette with a
electronic pen and it was displayed on a monitor in front of you it was revolutionary for me to see how you could modify color, change shape, cut and paste yes everything.
I saw the opportunity, and spoke with the company that introduced this elecronical palette. Paintbox as it was called by Quantel. It turned out that their business was just where I lived in Le Tholonet, what a coincidence. I started taking private lessons there to learn how this wonderful palette worked and 1984 I made my first digital pictures.
Next problem was how do you get those digital photos out from your computer and I searched everywhere to find a technique to get these images on paper.
This was before computers of today there was only word processing computers on which you wrote texts.
I finally found out that it was possible to get slides from the Paint Box that was all I wanted .
And I did some big photos from them and lightboxes (cibacrom) it was really interesting to see those digital images in real life Now I wanted to print them on canvas so I could paint on them, and I found a company that was then called ”Bildproducenterna” and now they are called Big Image, where you could print out images from slides and get them really big I went there and we made some tests I wanted to print on canvas but they did not have that, they had some kind of fabric and paper so I started to find different kind of canvas to try and finally I found a good one that took the color well. It was a great feeling to see all these big canvases hanging there, I painted with acrylic on them and they all came out well.
From 1984 when I started with Paintbox it took 4 years to get them on canvas.