My name is Federico Rodríguez Torres, I am FEROTO. Or simply Rodríguez.

The restlessness of painting took on me at an early age, I would say it happened when I was about ten years old, however, life did not lead me down that path.

My parents made a really great effort so my brothers and I could study, “you should have better a future” my mother used to say.

I went through my school life without having access to painting, because the school programs in my homecountry were not designed for it. I had not the economic possibility of acquiring the materials to paint, and much less the one to take classes in a private way. I had to postpone expressing myself through painting, drowning my inner, hoping for a better future that let me to do so.

But life gives everyone opportunities sooner or later, you just have to take them and hold on firmly when they show in your sight.

There are those who have everything at their reach to make things easier, “good for them!” I say, but definitely it was not my case.

When I was sixty-two years old, finally arrived my opportunity and I took it. I had the stability and the time that I didn’t have before to express myself with my painting. There is a lot trapped in me, there is a lot to say through colours.

So I show you the work I’ve done since 2017.

The end of my adventure only time will say.

FEROTO