Author: Gustavo Arencibia

I was born a long time ago, in August 18, 1933, in Havana, Cuba. I studied my primary education and business administration at Central Methodist School in Havana. I also took a course of commercial drawing at Academia Comercial Minerva. In April 1954 I came to live in Miami, Florida. For two years I enlisted in the US Army and spent eighteen months in France, having the chance to visit a lot of places in Europe. In 1958 I started working for thirty-three years at Pan American Airways at Miami International Airport and, after that, three years more with Delta Airlines. In those thirty-six years, I had the opportunity to visit over eighty countries and thirty states of the USA. My oils and drawings are inspired in all those places I visited. In 1971 working with Pan Am, I started my large collection of ink drawings in black-and-white and in full color, filled with details of all the places I visited. Most of my art education I received from the excellent professor Enila Kealoha at the Lindsay Hopkins Vocational School. Later on, I also studied with Estela Santis, Anita Delgado, and Heriberto Mora. Married to Cristina Juri, a Uruguayan journalist, I am very familiar with the culture of that beautiful country that I have visited more than twenty times.