Fernando Escobar

I was born in Quito , Ecuador on August 20, 1962. From a very early age, my parents' activity in painting and sculpture stimulated my interest in art. Due to my mother's taste for shoe design, leather became a very familiar and interesting material in my creative ideas.

My self-training in painting was constant and intense since my youth. So was graphic design, drawing and illustration, which generated the formation of my own company called "Solarte" in which for 30 years I kept designing and producing educational material for students of initial, basic and medium level from Ecuador and Panama.

At the beginning of the 80's I made my first individual exhibitions, in which I already highlighted the use of leather as a support for my painting, later on I will be refining my artistic work on this material.