Alonso Flores was born in 1957 in Santa Ana, El Salvador.At age 10, he moved to La Palma, Chalatenango, where he fell in love with the locale’s natural beauty and breathtaking views and was drawn to the simple, everyday life of the common folk. While in La Palma, Alonso studied artisan crafts, including the rudiments of painting, and used the canvases, brushes and few tubes of acrylics supplied by the workshop to explore the world of art, at first through trial and error, and later with greater proficiency. In 1983, Flores began to paint “in earnest”, placing special emphasis upon El Salvador’s enchanting vegetation, wide open fields, distant blue hills, picturesque villages and local farmers.
Later in his art career, Flores was befriended by Fausto Perez, the leading naive artist of El Salvador, whose kind advice assisted him in improving his choice of colors and stylistic techniques. In parallel to his life as an artist, Flores worked for many years as a government employee and, more recently, as a leather craftsman. He advises that, every night, he goes to sleep thinking and dreaming of new themes based on childhood memories.
