I Julio Cesar Vasquez, artistic name JUCEVA started my artistic career in 1974 since I was a kid in a town called La Dorada (Caldas), in Colombia South America at the age of 6 years when I started the elementary school. The teacher set us to do drawings at the same time we were learning how to read and write; at that time I did several paintings and sketches around the house I grew up.

My Talent was hidden all the time without nobody notice it and no me either because anyway I always noticed that some of my friends were better than me, so I though that I didn’t have that called at all.

After I finished the high school I went to live in Bogotá (Capital of Colombia) in the year 1987. Over there I met my aunt who had been encouraged me to be a painter since I was a kid and who is also a painter. She told me to do a drawing for her of a portrait taken from a picture, so I can keep developing my hidden talent and when I finished it we noticed my natural talent because my version was better than the original. Off course the original source was just a picture and my work was the result of the human eye, crystal of the soul. More