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Our Featured Artist - Carlo Castellano

Born in the capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Carlo Castellano developed an artistic affinity shortly after he began secondary school. Soon after graduation, he joined a lively art community of painters, dancers, and photographers in Tegucigalpa. There, he became acquainted with the influential Cuban Painter, Gelasio Jimenez, the winner of the Brazilian Bienale. Under the tutelage of Jimenez, Carlo quickly honed his painting technique and soon began participating in group shows throughout the city. Eventually he was invited by the Inter-American Institute of Culture to participate in a two-man show with the photographer, David Dow. The success of this show led to another invitation in Costa Rica. From there, some of his paintings were shipped and sold to private galleries and collections in Florida.

Among his wide circle of friends in Tegucigalpa, he met his future wife and mother of his three daughters. After a couple of years in Honduras, they decided to relocate to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to pursue their careers; his wife, with a Masters Degree in Education and Carlo, with his own boutique of Latin American Artesian Imports and Paintings. The boutique, "Ia Botijai" was named in honor of his friend, Manuel Laines Argucia. There he gained recognition for his singular vision of bringing Latin-American culture to the heartland. Also, he received an enthusiastic response to his paintings, which the populace found new and inventive.

Not entirely satisfied with the life of a business owner, he and his family moved down to New Orleans, Louisiana, attracted by the artistic and cultural vitality of the city. In New Orleans, there Carlo worked with a gallery owner Count Jacques Ferrer Forte, whose father was a classmate of Picasso at the Barcelona Art School. He soon began working with The Ferrer's in the field of fine art restoration, specializing in the intricate work of antique gold leaf frames. Becoming more involved in the New Orleans art world, he seized upon an opportunity and opened his own business, The Wooden Box. This new enterprise catered to a niche market of packing and shipping antique furniture and valuable works of art. After years of nurturing the business and developing a wide clientele base, Carlo became distracted again with the life of a business owner, hearing again the call to create new art. He sold The Wooden Box which is still in business twenty years later, traveled across the country, and fell in love with the verdant, charming city on Puget Sound, Seattle.

After settling into his new life in Seattle, he resumed his primary interest in painting. His current project is a series of oil paintings inspired by his personal experience with the isolation of illness and the rebirth of recovery, a universal theme of suffering and survival that he shares with many artists. This inspiration has led to success in the North Western Artistic Community. He now seeks to find opportunities to integrate Art into the community. Future plans include opening a gallery for Hispanic Painters from all over Latin America that not only provides exposure for talented artists, but also creates a cultural liaison for the ever growing Latin community.

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