The ocean view from our friend's apartment in Caraballeda has progressively been blocked. The pleasant golf course and beach front buildings view (first two drawings) has been disfigured by dozens of new building blocks (see third drawing). I could not avoid associating their architecture to that of the Catia jail blasted down by former president Caldera over 15 years ago (see photographs at the bottom).
After a lifetime in Venezuela, I moved to native Germany. It is not easy to start anew overseas, yet it offers marvelous opportunities! What is everyday monotony to most, is interesting new to me. I sketch everywhere, often on trains. There are tons of new things to record in my sketchbooks. I fear time is not enough to materialize all my ideas. I want to depict the enormous diversity of people around me in Europe.
My work has been presented in dozens of art exhibitions and competitions in Venezuela earning a few awards. It has been exhibited in several International Watercolor Biennials in Mexico and other venues, such as the First Andean Watercolor exhibition in Cuenca, Ecuador; Aquarela Internacional Sao Paulo in Brasil 2008, II International Watercolor Biennal 2011 in Spain, a special watercolor exhibition in Russia commemorating St. Peterburg´s tricentennial, as well as in other venues in Spain, Italy, USA, Brasil, Chile, Guatemala and Panama.
Member of the International Urban Sketchers organization and its Essen, Bochum, Niederrhein, Dortmund, Herne, Dusseldorf/Cologne and Caracas chapters; Venezuelan Watercolor Association and International Watercolor Society IWS.
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