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Guillermo Fernandez de Castro

"I am Guillermo Fernández de Castro, but everyone calls me Willy. From the time I was a boy I've been involved with art, thanks to my paternal grandfather Octavio Fernández de Castro. An extraordinary painter and a master at oil on canvas, he guided my first drawings.

"I studied architecture at university, and my thesis was titled 'Center of Astronomical Observation.' It was there that I fell in love with my country's colonial architecture and where I began my first pencil sketches. After graduation, I got married and continued my career as an architect. At the same time, I ventured into watercolors as a self-taught painter and eventually developed my own style. In 1992, I began to work with acrylics, creating paintings of my own inspiration, and today I am working with oils in large-scale abstract works.

"My activities go hand in hand – my wife and children, art, music and architecture are my great passions. I've participated in many exhibits, both in and outside Mexico, also showing my drawings, silk screen prints and engravings. In 1979, I mounted the first of 18 solo exhibits, which include showings in La Joya, California; Dallas, Texas; and Saginaw, Michigan.

"Among my works, I've developed 30 portfolios with different architectural themes and their descriptions. Each contains from six to ten drawings or watercolors. I also offer a series of reproductions, and in 1995 I added a series of postcards with the objective of making Mexico's colonial architecture better known."