Meet the Artist

Meet the Artist

Ed Valdizan is a Peruvian-American artist who uncovered his talent in his late 40’s. He has worked as a hotel manager for many years in countries like Peru, Costa Rica, Mexico and the United States. It was while living in Chicago that he took drawing and painting classes at the Triton Community College and discovered himself to be a very eclectic painter.

Ed paints purely by instinct. He is a very experimental visual artist who is at peace with creativity and for whom there is no formality when he enters into his "art zone" with his brushes and colors.

His artwork consists primarily of domestic scenes in ordinary life, but in vastly diverse worlds -- from an Amish man in a small Midwestern American community to an indigenous woman selling clay jars by the side of the road in a little Andean town in South America.

Ed also flirts with abstracts and semi abstract compositions, using the same materials with which he is most comfortable: acrylics and oil pastels on canvas.

His paintings show the duality of these worlds in which he has lived and where he has discovered his own way to communicate common life in vibrant and captivating colors. Ed Valdizan currently resides in South Florida, US.




8/31/2010

Baptism of Solomon's Daughter

This is one of my very first artworks using acrylic medium. It is an original and is inspired on one of my [charcoal] drawings with a live model at the Chicago Community College. After Blue Nude decided to work again using just one more color besides white. Dimensions are 12" by 16".
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Mardi Gras Pineapples

This artwork is an original using acrylic on canvas and was a caption from a very colorful old quilt hanging in a general store in Shipshewana.
I gave different patterns and texture to the color stripes on the pineapples and made them very festive.
Dimensions are 12" by 24" on a wooden frame stapled on the back.
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Old Amish Man

This is a beautiful acrylic painting. It shows an old Amish man inside his buggy [from a passenger's perspective] looking at a house and an Amish woman drying a load of laundry in the backyard.
The size is 16" by 20" acrylic on canvas artwork original.
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8/16/2010

The Sunflower Barn

This painting was inspired in a picture taken at Solomon Farms by Du Pont Road in Fort Wayne. I used acrylic on canvas and added oil pastels on the petals of the Sunflower. The size is 20" by 16" and has a rustic wooden aged frame.
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8/14/2010

Blue Nude

This painting is called 'Blue Nude". The media is acrylic on canvas; the size 12" by 16" and is a composition that came originally from a charcoal drawing I made in one of my art classes with a live model at Triton College in Chicago.
Instead of focusing on details I decided to make a drawing of the general silouette of the woman and then give it a touch of honest sensuality. There are only two colors used on this composition: blue and white.
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8/09/2010

Cardinal Rouge

This artwork is also one of the first ones I painted. The media is acrylic and oil pastels on canvas and the size is 14" x 11".

The picture of the bird was taken in the midwest during the winter months and is a male Cardinal. The background is bluish and helps the bright red feathers of the bird. SOLD - SOLD - SOLD
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8/04/2010

Painted Face ~ Cara Pintada

This is one of my first artworks and was inspired by the famous French artist Francoise Nielly. As you are able to see this male face has strong, colourful strokes and deep details in the eyes using bright and indistinct colours.

The media is acrylic on canvas and the size is 16" x 20". It resembles a sport team fanatic.
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