Artist Jose Luis Corella (Spanish artist)

Artist Jose Luis Corella 

Was born in 1959 in Valencia, Spain.  He describes his childhood like that of any other kid, within the parameters of normalcy.  A noticeable difference though, is that he spent most of his time engaged in painting, modeling or drawing.  All this done by his personal choice and freedom to do so.  Corella recalls that at age six, on the Day of Reyes (holiday where it is believed the Three Wise Men gave gifts to Jesus Christ on January 6), his parents gave him as a gift a wooden suitcase with paints, brushes, oils and some cardboard.  For Corella, this was the most appreciated treasure because it contained new material with which to paint aside his watercolors, grouches or pencils that were his usual materials. Originating from a family of non-artists, Corella had to use his own intuition, desire and hard work in order to learn how to utilize oil paintings.  Corella had a firm belief that in order to achieve what he wanted, if he had to work and study hard to achieve it, then he would.  At the age of nine, his parents enrolled him in a technical drawing academy because due to his age they could not enroll him in avant-garde artistic drawing.  He then continued to study drawing of statues and stone carving and restoration until he entered the Faculty of Fine Arts of San Carlos de Valencia.