Biography

ALBERT LANDEROS began painting with watercolors, turned to acrylics and oils, but returned to watercolors. He likes the sparkle and spontaneity of transparent watercolor and uses it exclusively. He uses no gimmicks or exotic tools or materials, he just paints in the purist transparent tradition.

Albert seeks isolation where he can experiment and discover visual solutions and new ways of seeing, exploring, and expressing what he sees and feels. Photography is an important component of his creative process. He captures the fleeting moment, just the right nuance of body, light, and motion.

He seldom paints landscapes; people provide the seeds from which his paintings grow. All of this paintings are based on his own experiences. Landeros traveled at every opportunity -- photographing people in Europe, the Orient, North Africa, Spain, Mexico and Guatemala. Through visiting the "indigenes" -- the native Indians in the remote, unspoiled areas of Mexico, he developed a theme for which he become so well-known.

The natives, so rooted in tradition intensify the images he painted, Landeros brings to these subjects his own heritage. The kinship he felt is apparent in his paintings and is at the heart of his work.