José María Prieto

Artist and painter

Born in Asturias

Asturian artist trained at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts in Valencia and at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Here he began his career in 1977 until 1983, specialising in painting.

His tireless vision of life made him travel to different places, cities and countries that marked his artistic career, starting as a teacher of design and illustration in Mexico in 1984, making different creations and artistic exhibitions until 1986, when he returned to Spain to take charge of the creation and assembly of all the window displays of Loewe shops in Spain for several years until 1993, directing the workshops of the first class of window dressers of the Loewe Foundation.

His work in Asturias defines him as one of the “Painters of Candamo” where he has made pictorial and volumetric reproductions for the Interpretation Centre of the Cave of San Román de Candamo as was shown in 2017 in the Archaeological Museum with the exhibition of the centenary of the discovery of the cave where part of the volumetric reproductions with paintings and engravings of Candamo were exhibited with the artists Magín Berenguer, Joaquín Vaquero Turcios, Francisco Benítez Mallado, Juan Cabré Arguiló and the photographer Pedro Saura, Joaquín Vaquero Turcios, Francisco Benítez Mallado, Juan Cabré Arguiló and the photographer Pedro Saura, as well as several works for different Interpretation Centres of the Principality of Asturias, such as the artistic production, direction and realisation of the exhibition El Oro de Los Astures in the Colegiata de San Juan Bautista of the Palacio de Revillagigedo in Gijón and other works for different Interpretation Centres of the Principality of Asturias.