Fran A.H.
Alvarado
Born in Rociana del Condado,
1975.
His work focuses on the
representation of animal world, regardless of the material or technique,
whether that be drawing, painting, engraving or sculpture.
At present he is working on
two artistic projects: 'PAISAJES' where he shows wildlife observed in Doñana,
the Odiel Marshes, Tablas de Daimiel and other lake areas of the Upper Guadiana
and Cabo de Gata (Almería)... being drawing the main means and ‘NOSTALGIA’,
where he comes back to his childhood and youth, more attached to nature, for
inspiration and transforms his experiences on three-dimensional objects.
With academic training, he studied at the School of Arts and Crafts “León
Ortega” in Huelva, and then at the Fine Arts Faculty in Seville. He
continues his training by attending different specializing courses at the FreeSchool of Fine Arts in Priego de Córdoba, being Mr. Venancio Blanco the teacher,
where he learned the art of bronze casting. He has also taken courses in
ceramics, design, Japanese binding and casting; specially, the specializationcourse on Fusible Crucible Technique directed by Mr. Juan Carlos Albadalejo
Gonzalez, doctor who brought to Spain the use of ceramic shell as material for
making molds for artistic casting.
He has made an individual
exhibition of drawing and engraving: 'Doñana, mother of all the faunae', which
moved around the localities near the Natural Park.
He has been selected for the
XL International Exhibition '2015 Birds in Art' in Wausau (Wisconsin - USA),
one of the most important exhibitions on Wildlife Art in the world; at the
International Fine Arts Contest in Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real)in 2012, 2013 and 2015, the
oldest contest of art in our country. He has also been selected in the Autumn Exhibition of the Fine Arts Academy of Santa
Isabel de Hungría in Seville (2012).
In 2007 he joined theSpanish Association of Nature Artists, being its secretary nowadays.
In 2007 he joined theSpanish Association of Nature Artists, being its secretary nowadays.
