Alexandre Montoya was born on the 16th of January 1974, Roldadillo (Valle), Columbia. He studied the fundamental concepts of drawing perspectives at INEM, in
the city of Pereira where he graduated as an Industrial Graduate.
In 1994 he opened a small gallery in the city of Cali. He began to be
more involved in his drawings when he had more contact with other
artists in this region. Each day he felt more motivated to paint.
Alexandre says, it was because he knew that he had a gift with the paint
brush and his heart swelled with happiness and peace when he was
painting night after night.
Alexandre participated in some exhibitions and when he was 24 years old
he won first prize of "Young Artist of the Year" in his region
Vallecaucano, Columbia.
In 2001 he decided to close his gallery in Columbia and move to Spain to grow and develop his work as an artist.
Painting is a way of expression, a constant internal search and from the
moment I began to paint I have used several landscapes of colour. At
first I expressed myself with the typical colouring of a tropical
climate, then I was plunged into the chaos of not knowing where to go, I
was inside a world of greys and from that basis I have been giving way
to the warmth, the colours and the shapes that I show today.
