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.
1957 Born in Santa Ana, El Salvador
1969 Moved to La Palma, El Salvador
1977 Moved to San Salvador, El Salvador
1983 Began his artistic career
Self-taught artist
Group Exhibitions
1986 University of South California, California, USA
1986 America Woman Association, San Salvador, El Salvador
1987 Fernando Llort Gallery, San Salvador, El Salvador
1989 Central America Biennial of Primitive Painting, Asilla Guillen, Managua, Nicaragua
1994 Guatemala City, Guatemala
1994 Camino Real Hotel, San Salvador, El Salvador
1994 America Woman Association, San Salvador, El Salvador
1995 El Salvadorean Demographic Association, San Salvador, El Salvador
1998 La Casita del Arte, San Salvador, El Salvador
2002 La Casita del Arte, San Salvador, El Salvador
2003 El Tunel Gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2004 Fernando Llort Gallery, San Salvador, El Salvador
2004 El Salvadorean Demographic Association, San Salvador, El Salvador
2006 “Magic Mountains, Mystic Valleys”, GINA Gallery of International Naןve Art, Tel Aviv
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