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Featured Artists
Kayo (Claudio Olaya) is a Peruvian master painter who specializes in oils and watercolors. He has exhibited his work in many cities throughout Peru and also in Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and the United States. He studied at the Regional Fine Arts school of Peru. Some of Kayo’s themes include but are not limited to: still life, nautical, peasants and countryside themes in a modern impressionist style as well as abstracts.
Yurac from a young age, had inclinations towards painting. He has exhibited in different regions of Peru as well as in Ecuador, Mexico, and The United States. He specializes and is particularly great with a technique of painting using the spatula. He mainly paints with acrylics in either canvas or paper.
Mary Susan (Mary Susan Campoverde) studied at the Superior Art School of Ignacio Merino. She is a curator and specializes in restorations of old frescos in old Catholic churches in her region of Piura. She has her own style of painting which portrays peasant peruvian women in a colorful and refined style. Her themes of abundance are displayed by the use of pottery, fish, etc which symbolize prosperity.
Campoverde (Segundo Campoverde) is a peruvian painter who paints oils in the style of Costumbrismo. Campoverde is also an art restorer. He studied at the University National of Piura. He has exhibited his work throughout Peru and has restored many murals as well as antique oil paintings. Costumbrismo (sometimes anglicized as Costumbrism) is the literary or pictorial interpretation of local everyday life, mannerisms, and customs, primarily in the Hispanic scene, and particularly in the 19th century.