Shakeel was born in the heart of Sardinia. Out of an instinctive impatience with everything that is ‘imposed’, he soon abandoned his regular school studies and in 1993 obtained a professional qualification as a wood inlay craftsman.

The subject attracted him and this is where he began his journey as a self-taught craftsman. Experimentation fascinates him so much that he starts new techniques such as coloured inlays and pyrography with gunpowder.

If it is true that any manual activity can become meditation, Shakeel could not fail to meet Osho on his way and embark on a journey of awareness and spiritual quest.

Meditation, dance, theatre, commune life, trips to India and Mexico enrich and stimulate him as an artist.

Everything changes and he falls unconditionally in love with life, which gives rise to the desire to salvage objects abandoned or destined for the dump.

Shakeel’s works are to look at and to feel, no big words are needed, no need for an evaluating and judging mind, just the heart and imagination.