ALFREDO BAZÁN. ARTIST

I was born in Mexico City. I am self taught and I love painting and drawing since I was a kid. For ten years I did illustrations for several advertising agencies. I've been painting full time since 1994, I have participated in numerous collective exhibitions in Mexico and overseas. I also had three personal exhibitions.

Studied silk screen process at Escuela Práctica de Serigrafía in Mexico City. In 1998-1999 I won a scholarship from the Swedish Cultural Institute to study painting and history of art in Stockholm. As well as participating in the celebrations of the Annual European Culture Capital in Sweden. Besides my paintings, I illustrate children's books for several publishing companies.

My work has been included three times in the Illustrators Catalog form the National Fund for the Arts and Culture in Mexico.

ABOUT MY WORK

Most of my work is in watercolour. I love the easy flow and effects you get as well as the luminosity and transparency you get with this technique.

I was born and raised in the biggest city in the world. I live amongst buildings, electric cables, TV aerial and thousands of people. I live between the noise and the smog of thousands of cars. It might be terrifying for some, but there is a beauty underneath, thousands of stories to tell and thousand things to see. I've seen other cities, other countries, where the landscape is more easy in the eye but they lack the vitality, joy and colors of my city.