ARTIST Bernardino “Nino” Paredes
Bernardino Paredes was born in Lima, Peru, he comes from a family of artists.
His grandfather and his father bestowed to him the technique of the portrait painting that he learned as a child.
The realism of his strokes and the refinement of his style, have been worth him to be the mandatory portrait painter of the Grand Masters of Peruvian Masonry, whose paintings are exhibited in the premises of the Grand Lodge of Peru.
Nino has also painted portraits of prominent Peruvian politicians and professionals, some of his paintings decorate the corridors of the building of the Congress of the Republic in Peru.
He learned to paint with his father in the family’s workshop and under the supervision of his grandfather, who entrusted him with many of the secrets that he now permeates in his canvases and which stamps as a distinctive note on his portraits.
Nino’s versatility allows him to execute, together with his elaborate portraits, a very varied range of themes and styles. One of the facets of his painting is the search for the three-dimensional effect.
In this technique, the painter faces in skillful mixture, flat, figurative, and geometric elements against colored surfaces that act as agents of abstraction; completely removed from conventional drawing and painting.
Nino has had many exhibits over the years, in Peru and in the USA, but mainly in California.
His painting are preferred by local and international collectors.