About

Coming from a Colombian landscape painters background, the proximity to oil painting has been a decisive influence for my final artistic path. The creative and manual power, that has always been there but awakened a few years after finishing my education, brought me to discover, in my own terms, sculpture and then portraiture and later on, encouraged by my grandfather and father, still life and landscape painting.

Having finished my training at the Charles H. Cecil Studios in Florence, I now work in sculpture and portraiture with the sight-size method. Painting from life, with natural light, aiming towards life size scale and working with a reduced palette are strong foundations for my work.

The old and classical masters from the 16th to the 19th century are a profound source of inspiration. Sometimes the interest to copy them and learn directly from them is too strong to resist. Other times they just invite to mimic their colour combinations or beautiful compositions.

Hohlbein, Lorenzo Lotto, Van Dyck, Velásquez, Bernini, Lorenzo Bartolini, Caspar David Friedrich, Courbet and John Singer Sargent are a few of the artists that I most admire and have shaped my way of looking at painting and sculpture.