Villasante

Villasante is an excellent and gifted artist by nature, not by education. Born in 1965 in the poorest section of Peru, he was taken to Lima at age seven with expectations of emigrating to the USA. Because of legal complications he could not leave the country. He remained alone in Lima and stayed by himself as the sole occupant of the house he has occupied all these years.

 

He shows his candor and innocence through the paintings of children; and the influence of his architectural studies is shown through his doors and boat renderings. His still-life works show his ability to relate the old traditional Peruvian culture with what is modern Peru. His portrait and character studies make evident his perception and deep feeling and understanding of life and the individual.

 

Villasante has had dozens of exhibitions in the U.S., England and  xhibited in February, 1999, along with hundreds of other watercolorists, at the most prestigious watercolor exhibition in the world, getting impressive attention that surpassed his expectations.

 

 

 

 

 Through Town

 

 

 

The Red Door

 

 

 

The Passageway

 

 

 

Reflections