Gustavo Alexis Valenzuela was born in Santiago, the capital of Chile. Since his very childhood he was characterized by a great inquietude and a huge necessity of no limits search, which will lead him to find a communication means through Art.

At the age of 18 he starts his formal studies of Painting with Master Ricardo Ramírez, the founder of Arte Real International Painting School, which is based on the work of the Ancient Techniques of the Great Masters.

His learning begun in the field of Compositional Drawing, Structural Drawing and Sketching, in painting techniques such as Frank-English (Pre-Raphaelites, approach to painting), Flemish and Venetian Grisaille, Venetian Technique, Baroque Technique, Claire-Obscure and Velazquez technique.

In parallel he studies Art History and Restoration in SEK International University of Chile from 1993 to 1996.

As an accomplishment of one of his many projects he works with Israel tourists, who traveled through America ,Gustavo gives them intensive painting lessons obtaining remarkable results and very good welcoming from the foreigner students.

In the beginning of 2002, he works in a pilot project of the restoration of the sculpture La Primavera of the Chilean sculptor Virginio Arias, this project was approved by the city Major in that time, Miss Adriana Peñafiel. Later in the same year and after a deep thinking about the schools’ art education brings to reality an initiative aimed to Visual Arts school teachers of basic and middle level, meant to offer a new alternatives to the education of Arts in Chile through schools. Within this year and based on the experience of Arte Real in Santiago, he developed the Children Painting Academy in La Serena branch to forge solid cultural roots in the youngest and give the community an alternative development opportunity for kids who have an artistic inclination. In the beginning of this year he started his painting works, aiming at expressing all the experience acquired through the years in the shape of a personal artistic proposal.

Gustavo Valenzuela is numbered among the  best Israeli artist specialised in tyhe figurative style and Expressions art gallery exhibits some of his most interesting works