![Aurelio Rodriguez Lopez - Painted in Blue and Gold II [2013]](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/700/23293451566_2aab4343c8_o.jpg)
Aurelio Rodrigues Lopez was born in 1958 in Andalusia. He moved to Madrid in 1976 to train as an engineer but gave up university to pursue his love of art. Like many Spanish artists he took to painting street portraits, first in Madrid where he studied at the Soto Mesa School of Art, then in Marbella and Tenerife, where he studied sculpture with Guillermo Batista Diáz. He now lives and works in Puerto Banús, Marbella.
See: www.aurelioarte.com/
[Art Renewal Centre - Pastel on wood and black lava, 41.33 x 47.25 inches]