Death (2002) Painting by Viviano

I am an English paintier living in Mexico. At times it can seem to be a very crazy culture, but this makes it particularly exhilarating for me. Whilst in England everything happens behind closed doors, here it is much more on the street. It is a living culture with street parades, festivals, religious pilgrimages and street theatre. Queretaro is particularly rich in theatres and party places for children. Mexico is a melting pot of peoples including Spanish, Indigenous Indian Toltec and European/Americans (USA). We are at the meeting point of all the Americas. Drugs going north, guns coming south, illegal imigrants going north and United States industry moving south. Corruption, kidnapping, extortion and narco-gang-wars are rife. The costumes are colourful, the women are very womanly and sexy and the people fun-loving. There is much poverty, especially in the indiginous Indians who form the majority of the street sellers. Despite the corrupt laws, police and Caltholic church, the people can always smile with broad smiles and laugh at advercity. Every birthday is taken as an excuse for a party/fiesta. For me it is a painter's paradise. I am just surprized that it is relatively undiscovered and not more of a tourist attraction to Europeans.
HISTORY
born D,Day 1944 in Rugby England
Artist designer Pergamon Press
Cartoonist, designer and advertising copywriter - Oxford Mail, Times and Star.
Cartoonist Oxford Journal
Retail copywriter and dezigner - Impact advertising UK
Harwood Advertising Johannesburg. South Africa
Cartoonist Johannesburg Star South Africa
Designer, Money Magic Johannesburg South Africa
Cartoonist MediaWatch, FirstDown American football magazine. UK
McCann Erickson Australia.
Cartoonist MediaWatch Oxford UK
YWCA, Body Positive, Care work, Sainsburys, Stage Coach, bus driver.
psychic, psychic artist, RDA Promotions, Psychic Circle, Mary Rose Psychic line.
Married Maria de Leon in Virginia USA
Art teacher, Titita Queretaro. Mexico
The Studio Gallery in Millenio. Queretaro Mexico.

• Nationality: UNITED KINGDOM
• Date of birth : 1944
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary British Artists