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Costa Rica Artist: Fernando Porras Alvarez
By Explore Costa Rica Staff
Jun 27, 2008, 14:21

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Costa Rica Artist: Fernando Porras Alvarez

Costa Rica Artist Fernando Porras Alvarez

Primitive Costa Rica Art with a romantic touch!

Watch Artist Fernando create his sculpture! He is constantly observing and creating his characters utilizing a unique and recognizable style. Fernando uses all natural materials found in Costa Rica---tree trunks, roots, seeds, leaves, driftwood, shells, etc, to make his endearing creatures.

Fernando's vision is founded on a concept, “AGADA,” a profound love for everything around him. He sees a special spirit in all things. What he sees is real for him and his works are based on this romantic application of his vision.

A native Costa Rican, Fernando's life was one of poverty. While living in San Jose Costa Rica, he would make small clay figures of religious and Xmas scenes as a way of supporting himself and his family. However, he never really expressed himself through art until much later in life. His education was limited.

He was a bus driver for 40 years occasionally drawing Costa Rica landscapes for fun. At the age of 60, during his retirement, he took one of his landscapes to San Jose. A foreigner bought it for $20.

Fernando continued to draw more landscapes, but his true love was making and shaping animals found throughout Costa Rica---monkeys, toucans, pelicans, crocodiles, iguanas, snakes, armadillos, sloths, and many Costa Rica birds of different sizes and shapes. They all have a unique characteristic style that is unmistakably FERNANDESQUE.

KIDS SAVING THE RAINFOREST and HOTEL MONO AZUL and RAINFOREST RESTAURANT in Manuel Antonio are honored to display and sell his works. When visiting Costa Rica's Central Pacific coast and you see him around town or hanging out, you will enjoy his company. Fernando loves life, has a great sense of humor and enjoys sharing his reality with a twinkle on his face.

Hotel Mono Azul
Manuel Antonio / Quepos
Central Pacific, Costa Rica

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