Victoria Del Castillo

del Castillo
PROFILE
My early education in Colombia was in Catholic schools.
I left home as soon as I could. My moment came soon after graduating
from High School when I got a scholarship from the Italian Government
to study Renaissance Art in Rome and Florence.
I was fascinated by Italy's cultural heritage. Therefore, seeing the glories of the
Eternal City at such a tender age overwelmed me.
It was natural for me to take out painting. But, my early efforts during the late seventies were not easy.
I set out with abstract colored stains achieved by energetic brushstrokes.
The result was a thick surface pigment canvases, heavily worked and reworked,
layer upon layer. In few words, it was an impasto!!
After sometime, not satisfied with my artwork, I withdraw from painting until the eighties.
That's when while staying in the attic of a Victorian house in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, I started painting again.
This time around it was not Rome's Old Masters art that inspired me. It came from a different source.
One brilliantly sunny Spring day while gazing out the window, I was charmed
by the presence of a seductive Bostonian man who was working in his garden.
He stared back at me!... he was all smiles!!.
That winter ...