About The Artist

I was born in Colombia and went in the early 70’s to the USA and settled down in Beacon, NY, with my parents and siblings. Very early in life I started to show artistic aptitudes and easiness at drawing and painting, getting first place children’s art contests as of 1967. My true vocation really showed up when I was in Beacon High School. During those years I majored in Art and modern languages as I was thinking in becoming later a diplomat. In my senior year, I participated in the decoration of the school doing big murals, and participated in as many art activities as I could or there were. In my third year at Marist College, I went to Paris to study and improve my French within my International Relations major program. Once in Paris, I realized that diplomacy was not what I wanted to do. I dropped those studies, switched majors into Literature and art, and graduated from the American University in Paris. I eventually got other degrees in Linguistics from la Sorbonne, studied Japanese and stayed in Paris, where I lived for thirty-six years becoming an artist before moving to Switzerland. I have been commissioned works by private and public patrons.