Hermann Hess

I'm a Costa Rican painter (mainly acrylics) who developed an early interest in art around age 10 with Francisco Amighetti, a renowned teacher and artist trained in Italy, who lived in our neighborhood and encouraged us kids to 'help out' - it was a lot of fun -and learning- just to hang around, ask questions, and watch him work.

My somewhat more formal training began with Cecilia Woodbridge and mostly with Guillermo 'Chino' Porras, chosen in year 2010 among the top 20 artists in Latin America. I have been truly privileged to learn from these wonderful teachers.

Painting has been a leitmotif throughout my life; as an spectator when not as an actor. I'm always working to grow as much as I can as an artist, which has been at the same time frustrating and thrilling - lots of hard work and then sometimes reaching dead ends, or (in glorious contrast) achieving something I'm proud of, even if for a little while; until I see my painting a couple of months later and start thinking 'maybe this line should have extended all the way here, or this cadmium orange+yellow mix is a little too bright', and so on.

I have also been trained as an economist, which is quite an interesting way to see the world (although for the other side of t...

Collective - Galería 825, December 2000.
Collective - Universidad de Costa Rica, 2007.
Collective - Studio Metallo, December 2012.
Collective - Galería Talentum, June 2014.