Art Strokes & Krafts ~ Pinturas y Artesanías: April 2013

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.

4/16/2013

Macaw

This painting shows a bit stylized "Macaw", with its original feather colours. This is a very common bird which lives in the Costa Rican rain forest. The painting has a light interior frame and cannot be rolled up but, it can be send in a flat labeled box anywhere the US and Canada. The size is 16" by 20".

Butterflies World

This is a stylized butterfly captured in the rain forest region of Costa Rica. It shows a wide variety of colours, and also hides a few small sillouettes of smaller butterflies challenging the observer to find them all. The price is US $ 135.00 and the size is 16" by 20". It can be rolled up and ship to anywhere in the US and Canada. SOLD - SOLD - SOLD

Toucanos

This painting shows 2 toucans observing their environment in a very tall tree in the middle of Costa Rican rain forest. They are up high in a branch of a tree. These toucans are stylized but, are showing their original colors. The toucan is a very popular bird in many tropical countries like Costa Rica. The media used is acrylic on canvas; the size is 16" by 20" inches high and the size is 16" by 20".