ROBIN SUAREZ RUIZ: "I was born on October 27, 1973 in Pucallpa City. My parents are Don Ricardo Suarez Sinarahue and Doņa Rita Ruiz de Suarez.
"When I was 4 I used to help my mother selling fruits in the market near my home. Then when I was 5 I went to the kindom garden and afterwards to the primary school in the Trebol national school.
"I was selling ice cream when I was 10 to help my mother with the expenses of the house. In the school I used to do drawings, sketches about different things till a certain day when I have participated among the other students of the school on drawing and I went in that time, I was so happy.
"My high school I did it in the Faustino Maldonado high school and I finished in the evening classes in the Immaculada National School, because I was helping to my mother during the days but then I knew about the Usko-Ayar School of Painting so I become a student and with the time a painting teacher. I found in the school people as my real family - we help each other and so on. I had the opportunity to travel with 20 of the school to Iquitos to work in the Sachamama Ethnobotanical garden where I also knew about many trees and plants and I am very happy about that.
"This year I asked some permission to go to Lima and I come back to continue studying and doing what I really like to do. Painting and art is the most beautiful things that are in life because a person learns to be patient and humble."
You can take a walking tour through the paintings of the young Usko-Ayar artists of the Amazon Project, or you can take a shortcut to see all the artists in the gallery. These paintings are available for purchase from The Electric Gallery. We'd also appreciate your giving us your comments on our presentation.
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