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The following information was drawn from the artist's website, with his permission: Antonio Cazorla González was born in 1971 in Punta Umbría, Spain. From a very early age he showed an exceptional interest and aptitude for drawing and painting. This was further supported by his surroundings. By the age of ten he had already painted oil works.
After years of studying and exhibiting, in 1989 he initiated his studies in the Faculty of Fine Arts of Seville, where he took up residence. The experience in this city, so rich in art and its university was decisive for his career. His record as a student earned him the Landscape Grant of El Paular (Madrid). Here he shared experiences with the best students of the rest of universities of Spain. After his degree he attended the doctorate course. During those years his paintings evolved technically, maturing and becoming more personal. That evolution determined his professional course, and enhanced his critical and perfectionist characteristics.
In the next years, he participated in exhibitions and art fairs throughout Spain (Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Málaga, Huelva, Santander, etc.) and further afar in countries such Portugal and Belgium (Lisbon and Brussels).
Antonio Cazorla developed both technically and artistically when he moved to England at the beginning of 2002, with Sara, his wife. They lived in West Sussex, first in Rustington, and after several months they moved to the inspirational landscape of Arundel. Once settled in, Antonio became as one with his surroundings and painted with increased vigour and flair, and found in the Albemarle Gallery of London, located in the district of Mayfair, the most suitable environment to display his work.
Antonio Cazorla participated in two collective exhibitions in the summer and winter of 2003. In both exhibitions Cazorla was identified as a significant and fine artist by both critics and the general public. He also exhibited in the Arundel Gallery Trail that summer, the venue being this time his studio. It was noted by the local press as one of the most visited locations. The local press were very excited about his inclusion and his work was critically acclaimed as a fine example when thinking about art as a sensitive, precise discipline.
In June of 2004 he participated in the international art fair ARTLONDON in Chelsea, visited every year by thousands of people. In this art fair he showed a selection of his art work, which was exhibited a week after this event in his first solo exhibition at the Albemarle Gallery in London.
After two and a half years of experiences in England, in September of 2004, Antonio Cazorla moved back to Spain. Subsequenly, he received an award from The Academy of Sciences, Arts and Humanities of Huelva, and also the most important prize of Punta Umbría, the “Distinción 26 de Abril”, for his artistic career.
During these years he also participated in important exhibitions celebrated in Madrid, London and Athens. In 2006 presented his second solo show in London, repeating the success of the previous one with a complete sell-out.
Cazorla’s work is found in private and public collections worldwide.
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