Career as a Diplomatic

After being a member of the Diplomatic and Consular corps of Colombia for over 30 years and serving as Consul General of Colombia in Montreal, for six years (1997-2003), in 2005 Ambassador Fabio Avella decided to leave politics and fully devote himself to his passion for painting.

His Approach and Inspiration

His works are inspired by the strokes and rich colors of major Colombian painters such as Alejandro Obregón, Enrique Grau, Carlos Jacanamijoy, Ana Mercedes Hoyos and Juan Antonio Roda. On the international landscape, he follows with devotion the cutting-edge Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh. Avella’s canvases showcase much energy and generosity of hot tropical colors and he describes himself as an expressionist - figurative painter.

H AN INTERVIEW IN ABSTRACT WITH THE ARTIST

Some notes of the artistic work of the Maestro Fabio Avella sums them up in these phrases:

Art school that you like the most?

"For me, in art, there are no rules, this is how authentic art is born, and it is without rules that advances take place, go against the rules or ignore the rules, that's what my inspiration consists in and makes me original. The show in art Contemporains teach you that there are no rules anymore, and go against the rules or ignore the rules is what invention is about, I'm so happy to see that I do not have to go to school of art learn rules to be broken afterwords !! "

When or how is it inspired?

"Inspiration only comes to me as I work, the more I paint the more I realize the difference in my approach to others."

The history of art matters?

"I think there is nothing very new in any period of art: the truth is that it is only something new for the painter and that small difference is what matters. Art is much less important than life, but how bad is life without art "

Your personal techniques:

"I paint my paintings directly, I like to refine the effects that result from working on many layers of paint when I paint on top of it, this keeps my attention to the painting for me, it is my permanent contact with what I am doing. For me the color must be present and felt anywhere in the organization of the canvas. There are people who do not respond to color. That's what painting is: its color. "