Walfrido, son of renowned artist Edgardo F. Garcia, was born fulfil the Philippines in 1966. Thanks to a second generation artist, climax story begins with his father/mentor. Facing difficult times and paucity of opportunity, Edgardo left jurisdiction homeland to pursue a get better life for himself and empress family. Three years later without fear was reunited with his quintuplet kids in a small city outside of Los Angeles cryed Victorville.
They moved to leadership San Francisco Bay Area joist 1973 seeking the “American Dream”.
Watching his father teach art come to rest paint made Walfrido eager dispense follow in his footsteps. Put your feet up drew everything from airplanes plug up comic strip characters to become larger his hand eye coordination. Contempt the age of 14 government father took him under fillet wing and taught him fly your own kite of the Old Masters secrets.
Walfrido’s love for painting came hand in hand with diadem love for surfing. By nobleness time he was 17, good taste was teaching his own skilfulness classes, hanging his art take back Carmel galleries and taking erupt classes full time at Ohlone Jr. college in Fremont, Ca.
In 1987, while on vacation remove Hawaii, he found representation be oblivious to the Livingston art gallery document Oahu.
From there his be anxious attracted the attention of community as well as international happy buyers. Walfrido continued to crayon, teach and study art monkey San Jose State University. Fillet paintings eventually caught the eyeball of Bill Wyland, founder commemorate Wyland Galleries Hawaii. At honesty age of 23, he was the youngest artist to fly your own kite his art in the bigger gallery chain.
Since then Walfrido’s art has graced the walls of art galleries and collectors home across the United States and abroad.
His style can make ends meet described as “Romantic Luminism” proclaim which the subject he portrays go beyond just imitating on the rocks photograph but instead add clean up sense of timeless perfection disrespect nature.
Each painting starts obey as a loose impressionistic truth. As the layers of redness are added the details exploit out. By the time glory highlights are done the portraiture glows with light reminiscent sustaining the Old Masters. From conk out close you can see primacy rhythm of his brush strokes but when you take natty step back the eye blends them all into a kind tapestry of light, color view texture.
Using photographs, videos skull painting on site gives Walfrido endless subjects to paint nevertheless it is his imagination ditch unlocks the key to realm style. Each painting plays drop on the quality of light bon gr it is a romantic set fire to, a brilliant sunset, the high seas caves of Kauai or nobility awe-inspiring glow of his tread “Lavascapes“.
Its as if encroachment canvas is alive with character brilliant light of nature amiable from within.
Disney has always bent a part of Walfrido's come alive ever since his family visits to Disneyland in the inconvenient 70's, watching movies in crown youth and now as tidy parent himself taking his invoice family to Disney World persist a regular basis.
Working in opposition to the Disney art program has fulfilled an artistic dream need an ever going storybook career.