Martin Merino - Juan Moneo, "The Torta"

Painting "Juan Moneo, El Torta", belonging to Martín Merino's new collection.

Martín Merino Román, artistic painter, was born in 1945 in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz). Almost a child, he trained at the School of Arts and Trades in his hometown. He belongs to a generation that was trained in the so-called auxiliary wine industry that required graphic arts. There he acquired great skill as a draftsman, a quality that led him to work in companies in this branch such as the demanding Jerez Industrial. A great foundation for undertaking, at a certain age, his transition to painting. As the art critic Bernardo Palomo notes: 'his work is based on that determining drawing that structures any good project. For this reason, his portraits are very well composed works, narrating a reality that the author dominates to carry it out with just the right precision'. This gallery dedicated to figures of the flamenco art 'Flamencos de mi tierra' is a clear example of the quality and skill that its author possesses.