About Juan Cotrino

Gorn in Bogota, Colombia, Juan Cotrino began painting at a very early age. He had always had an innate love of painting but did not consider it as a professional path until his work was recognized by his supervisors while serving in the military. Though Juan Cotrino has attended various art schools, he is essentially a self-taught artist. He has developed his unique style over the years, transforming his passion into art by embracing life and the spirit reflecting his thoughts and feelings. Each painting consists of precise lines and the pure use of colors seen in traditional Latin American art. These characteristics give each of Cotrino’s paintings a strong compositional movement, varying from surrealism to figurative to even a touch of abstract. Cotrino uses symbols in his paintings to represent our lives as dream-like experiences and his palette varies from Oils to Acrylic to Mix-media. In Cotrino’s own Words, “I devote myself to the life of painting, discipline, vision, and determination to trace my path to success in the contemporary art world”