Alvaro Castagnet, 1954 ~ Impressionist Watercolor painter | Part. 2

Álvaro Castagnet is an master of watercolor medium who has been honored in numerous art competitions. He is a successful author who travels around the world attending exhibitions, hosting workshops and participating as a member of the jury for international art events.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Castagnet see Alvaro Castagnet, 1954 ~ Impressionist Watercolor painter.

Alvaro Castagnet, 1954 | Watercolor painter

Uruguayan painter Alvaro Castagnet was born in Montevideo, in the beautiful South American country of Uruguay.

His early interest in art was cultivated mainly by his father, who sent him to the National School of Art in Montevideo at a very young age where he was taught by Professor Esteban Garino.

Castagnet carried on his formal education in art at the Fine Arts University, where Miguel Angel Pareja was his oil painting tutor. Castagnet migrated to Australia in 1983, and lived there enjoying the cosmopolitan and forward-looking attitude of that country for 20 years.