Tarmeño Fernández Villalba paints for the people who are often left out of pictures.
He was born in Tarma, Peru and trained at the School of Fine Arts in Lima.
Tarmeño spent years in Ecuador where he worked with street children and ran a painting workshop that helped rescue and educate young people.
His work focuses on the human face, anatomy and the small gestures that reveal dignity and struggle.
He uses watercolor and acrylic and sometimes oil, always searching for truth in texture and line.
Tarmeño paints horses too, a subject born from childhood memories of fields and stables, rendered with careful study of anatomy and motion.
He has shown in galleries and salons since the 1980s, sometimes rejected, sometimes rewarded, always persistent.
Awards from the International Watercolor Society and invitations to festivals abroad helped his watercolors travel beyond Peru and Ecuador.
Tarmeño combines technical perfection with a clear human empathy, working in prisons, juvenile centers and community projects.
If you look at his paintings you see both craft and commitment, a voice for the disinherited and a steady hand.
Q: What themes define Tarmeño Fernández Villalba
A: Tarmeño Fernández Villalba focuses on marginalized people, human dignity and the anatomy of faces and horses.
Q: How did Tarmeño Fernández Villalba engage with communities
A: Tarmeño Fernández Villalba ran workshops in Guayaquil, taught in prisons and worked with street children to give art as escape.
Q: What mediums does Tarmeño Fernández Villalba use
A: Tarmeño Fernández Villalba works in watercolor, acrylic and oil, often in large formats for horses and figures.
“His brush listens to the quiet voices no one else will hear.”
