Belfast-based visual artist Joel Simon had only planned to live in Northern Ireland for a year when he first came here to study back in the mid 1990s, but life had other plans.
Now 27 years on, he has firmly established himself as a renowned animator and oil painter, started a family and created a social outlet for the city's French speaking community.
Joel, 49, was born in Belgium and lived in the USA and England before eventually settling in Belfast, which has been his home since 1995.
