Salvador Oliveros

THE MEXICAN-BELGIAN-AMERICAN Salvador Oliveros, a painter of LIGHT AND movement. Salvador discovered his passion for art as a child in Mexico City. drawing watercolour designs on shirt cardboards from the laundry. He recognized very quickly that he had an innate talent for mixing and applying color. In his teens, eager to explore a wider world, Salvador set off by cargo ship to rediscover his European roots ( FRENCH, ITALIAN AND SPANISH ). From a base in Toulouse, he traveled widely for a year, devouring the treasures of the great museums and, always with a drawing pad at hand. He was particularly attracted to Prague, because of his childhood admiration for the advanced animation techniques of Jiri Trnka. 

Through the Czech Institute of Culture, Salvador won a scholarship to study film animation in Prague, learning especially from Bretislav Pojar, a leading disciple of Trnka. At the same time, Salvador was creating an extensive collection of pen-and-ink drawings. Upon completion of his studies, Salvador worked in Amsterdam--always pursuing his drawings, but now together with watercolor. In the process, he learned Dutch, his fifth language ( after Spanish, French, Czech, and English ).

This fresh command of Dutch facilitated his settling in Ghent and becoming a naturalised Belgian citizen. Salvador was invited by Raoul Servais to study at the Royal Academy of Art in Ghent. He quickly moved on from animation to lithography, etching, woodcut and silkscreen. Ever since the 1990s, Salvador has divided his time between Belgium and the U.S., finding inspiration in both cultures--and exhibiting in numerous shows.

After years of working in watercolor, drawing and acrylic, he now paints exclusively in oils.