Tamborita camba (2010) Painting by Payno

José María Payno Balasanz

Fuente Cantos, Soria (Spain), September 30, 1924 - Santa Cruz de

la Sierra (Bolivia), May 7, 2017

Visual artist trained at the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon and at the

Mario Augusto Artistic Circle, in the same city; and a veterinarian,

graduated from the Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University. He lived in

Santa Cruz de la Sierra in 1944 and adopted Bolivian nationality.

Payno had a long pictorial career marked by a figurative style

and a realist tendency. His themes were mainly Santa Cruz, with historical paintings, costumbrist paintings, portraits and landscapes.

From the age of 20 he began teaching art in different educational centers and universities in Bolivia and Brazil and in his studio.

Around 1958 he married Esperanza Rivero from Santa Cruz, with whom he has three children: Susana, Marynés and Miguel Ángel. In the 1960s he moved with his family to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he worked for several years.

He did publishing work in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro.

At the end of the 1960s he returned to Santa Cruz and founded, in collaboration with other local artists, the Association of Plastic Artists of Santa Cruz, of which he was its first president. Under the auspices of this association, the House of Culture opened its first exhibition hall. Payno was also a founding member of the Bolivian Association of Plastic Artists (ABAP). In 1997, he patented his invention of a resistant painting technique, which he called Colloidal Painting, which he used in his paintings.

• Nationality: BOLIVIA
• Date of birth : 1924
• Artistic domains: Represented by a Gallery,
• Groups: Contemporary Bolivian Artists Artists presented by a gallery