Celso Zamora was born in 1972 in Managua, Nicaragua. As a child, he watched, with great fascination, how his father, Dario, a self-taught artist, applied brush to canvas to “magically” create colorful portrayals of farming life in their local village. To everyone’s wonder, Celso began painting at age eight, at first copying his father’s style but soon developing a more-insightful, personal approach to capture the care-free, everyday life of his classmates at school and the challenging life confronting the farm workers in the pineapple, cabbage and bean fields. As Celso’s travels throughout Nicaragua increased, he began to appreciate – and to reduce to canvas – the natural beauty of the sunrises and sunsets over his country’s breathtaking mountain ranges (Apante, Trapiche and Pochocuape); the laundering of clothes in nearby lakes and lagoons; and the marketing of crops via the many rivers traversing the land. With great nostalgia, Celso Zamora provides us with a very personal, loving depiction of a Nicaragua that once existed and hopefully will return once again.

1972 Born in Managua, Nicaragua
Began to paint when he was eight years old

Bibliography
“Pintura Primivista Nicaraguense”, Asocacion de Ayuda Medica a Nicaragua, 2000, Nagoya, Japan