I am an American artist, living in San Francisco, California. I am originally from the East coast where I received my classical education in Sculpture from the Art Students League of N.Y.C., N.Y., on the Merit scholarship and my Bachelors Degree in Graphic Arts and Education from Bennington College in Vermont in 1991. I teach clay modeling, protraiture and the figure to adults and children in public and private schools and in my studio.
Commissions I have done include lifesize bronze animals, animal stone carvings and portraits . I paint landscapes on location. Everything I paint has ancient mythic symbols that are revealed in optical illusions in my brushstrokes. My skill in my craft is important to me. I am greatly inspired by nature and by the great masters of the past and old American folk art. I try to bring out the architypes from the ancients in my portraits and create some kind of a pun.

"Zamarrón is a graphic artist whose work has been presented in different media: web, television, video, print, as well as art galleries. He has exhibited his work both in Spain, the United States and Northern Europe. He was invited to participate in the annual contest at the prestigious “New Langton Arts” gallery in 1995, after he had just arrived to San Francisco. His early work had been featured in several individual and collective shows at Facultad de Bellas Artes of Madrid (Painting and Audiovisual Media), where he graduated in 1994. He has worked with Madrid’s Galería Gaudí on shows for international festivals. He was invited by the Spanish Consulate of San Francisco to represent Spain with his paintings at the emblematic Palace of Fine Arts. He participated in a collective exhibit at the prestigious 111 Minna Gallery. His last big (sold out) show was at Fort Mason Center, for Open Studios in 2010.

Currently, he alternates his work as an art educator at Holy Name of Jesus school with his professional activity as a portrait artist, while trying to do “new things” in
all that relates to the development of his body of work. Day by day, he continues with his studies in art, he is getting his MA, Masters of Art Education at Academy of Art University. He has also studied multimedia and art in California, at the universities of San Francisco State and Berkeley, respectively."

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My body of work reflects my latest explorations – of the deeper regions of my own psyche and also the world of abstraction.

My Portal series represents for me the very center of creating my paintings. It is the process of trying to achieve a landscape on which one's interior life can explore.

In my figurative work I access my imagination and dig deep inside of myself to excavate a figure that evokes emotion and has vitality. 

The figure emerges, disappears, and reappears - until finally I connect strongly with the image. From there, I build layers of paint, then dig back into them to reveal a texture or color underneath that adds beauty, depth, originality and elegance to the piece. 

A lot of my recent work has been about accessing the subconscious. 

It is the things that bring me inward that inspire me - rain, Dvorak's New World Symphony, Japanese incense and poetry. It is from that place that I create. 

My work arises from the desire to capture emotion and expression: their mystery and power have always intrigued and fascinated me. In both my figurative and non-figurative work, I aim to retain the emotional rather than the physical, to evoke the spiritual rather than the temporal; and to search for the common sensitivity between my work and the viewer. I use opaque and transparent acrylics, oil pastels, varnishes and washes in super-imposed layers, arranging them according to their affinities and resistances, letting the colors speak.

Infinitely fascinated by human appearances, I try to render them in a lively and sensitive style.

Often I'm asked what inspires me to create such colorful and eclectic paintings. Living in the Bay Area for most of my life as well as having lived in the Philippines during my childhood, has afforded me an unlimited stream of seemingly ordinary subjects from which I can bring to life on canvas.

Most of my work explores the diverse culture, objects, neighborhoods and landscapes that I see around me on a daily basis. My paintings fuse these images together along with a bold palate and unique perspective to convey the strength and intensity of my subjects.

I draw trees, branches, twigs, buds, leaves, tendrils, nests, reeds, weeds, stems, grasses, vines, and shrubs in charcoal, graphite, encaustic, and pastel. Lines entice, the spaces between beckon.