FRANCISCO HERNANDEZ SANCHEZ
Biographical notes:
Born in La Horcajada (Ávila) in 1948 and six years moved with his family to Gipuzkoa, in the neighborhood of Arroa Zestoa.
In 1964, studying Industrial oficialía Zumaia, goes to work in the engineering department of a cement and building leisure travels painting landscapes nearby villages and hamlets corners selling people from their environment.
With extensive knowledge of drawing and animated by obtaining the First Prize Painting Competition \"EUROPISTAS\" held in 1975 to mark the opening of the motorway Bilbao-Béhobie decides to devote himself to painting, leaving his job in the company .
Travel to Paris, visiting galleries and museums. After a short time, decided to return to not find the desired climate.
He has worked with different materials and styles but these works are occasionally exposed. It has experienced in drypoint and etching, pastel technique, acrylic paint and oil, also making inroads into escultopintura and repeatedly exposing ceramic sculptures with their oils.
For several years he teaches as a professor of painting at the FRIENDS OF ART ASSOCIATION Zarautz later SALEAK ART, which is still working as an art school.
His first solo exhibition was in 1974 at the Museum of San Telmo in San Sebastian.
In 1982 opens in Zumaia \"Gallery ART 13\", being both his studio.
Invents and patents In 1983 one of the best systems for hanging pictures from the same gallery sells.
In 2004 decided to close it and move into your new home and studio in Ibañarrieta (Zestoa), which has its permanent exhibits.
EXHIBITIONS:
He has completed nearly eighty solo exhibitions since 1974: SAN SEBASTIAN, Bilbao, Vitoria, Pamplona, Logroño, Madrid, Zaragoza, Tarragona, Cuenca, Alcalá de Henares, Talavera de la Reina, Reus, ZARAUTZ, HONDARRIBIA, IRUN, TOULOUSE, EIBAR, Mondragon, HOLMES, Anglet (France), etc.
AWARDS:
Won numerous awards in competitions Painting outdoors in the Basque Country, Navarre and Salou (Tarragona).
Get the 1st. \"EUROPISTAS\" Award in 1975 to mark the opening of the Bilbao-BEHOBIA Highway.
EXHIBITIONS:
• Numerous national exhibitions.
• April 2004 - International Fair \"Holland Art Fair\" in The Hague.
• November 2005 - International Exhibition \"Contemporary Art Fair\" Edinburgh.
His works are in major collections of BILBAO, MADRID, FRANCE, GERMANY, ENGLAND and USA
Spain
