User:Arielchavarroavila

Ariel Chavarro Avila is a Contemporary Artist, who was born near Bogota, Colombia in 1970. His love for art, color and nature started very early as a child loving and caring after natural resources, he begun drawing animals and country life.

Since 1992, Chavarro attended both the Fashion Design School Arturo Tejada Cano and the Universidad de los Andes. Here he specialised in Fine Arts. Chavarro Avila is inspired by many recognised artists including Kandinsky, Constable, Matisse, Chagall, Braque, Picasso, Dali, and Hockney. He works in the medium of painting predominantly in Oil and Watercolor.

Trhough the 1990’s Ariel has held solo exhibitions in Bogota, Medellin and Cali. From 2000-2012 Chavarro resided in Madrid, Spain, where he continued to exhibit his work. He has held many solo shows and a lot of collective exhibitions across the world. Ariel is collaborating with art galleries, art dealers, art collectors, and some foundations and museums are requesting his paintings to be part of their permanent collections as the Haegeumgang Theme Museum, Nambumyeon Geoje (53334) South Korea.

He describes himself as a happy and a very positive person, people can appreciate it on his work. Art does not have to be sad, dark or depressing.