MARCELINO VASQUEZ (66)

"Machico," as people call him affectionately, is a special case. He lives in Tacshitea, a small jungle settlement by the Ucyali River, several hours by motor boat from Pucallpa. He is a self taught artist who had been using various cheap materials to render what he saw around him. He heard about the Usko-Ayar Amazonian School of Painting and took 2 of his paintings, made on cardboard and asked about being excepted to the school. He is a true naivist painter with a supreme sense of observation. He was for a month in Pucallpa, working at a restaurant so as to be near the school. Finally he realized that what he was earning was too little to sustain himself and his duaghter and went back to Tacshitea. From time to time he goes to Pucallpa to get art materials and sends through the school, his paintings abroad. He is a specialist in painting butterflies and puts enormous care to paint them so perfectly that people may believe that they are glued to the paper. He hopes to have an exhibition of his own.

MARLEY VASQUEZ R

I have been born on July 14 1977 in the Cruzeiro Do Sul ACRE in Brazil. My parents are Dr. Antonio Holonda Do Nacimento and Mrs. Arley Runarge Moreyra but they did not understand each other and after five years of living together they divorced for not having a comprehension and my mother with me traveled to Peru-Pucallpa and she got married gain with a man from Chiclayo, Don Lizardo Vasquez Iturria who recognized me as his daughter and I got Peruvian documents. He has changed my first surname as his and that is why my name now Marley Vasquez Rurange.
My father now a days is a manager of a hotel and my mother is a housewife and she makes also shoes with thread and swimming customs and earrings.
I like to play irgan, guitar and I sing in Portugese. I came to study in the Usko Ayar Amazonian School of Painting since March 1992. I am learning to paint and in my free time I like to read the Bible and make shoes as my mother makes. I like to listen to the evangeleic music and to read the newspaper. I am also studying the third degree in the CEMBA high school.

MARLON ROMERO G

I have born on October 24 1070 in Pucallpa. My parents Elever Hunan Romero del Castillo and Marlene Comez Hilalgo. I studied at the Snata Ropsa Primary School and for my health I loose one year of my studies that for continuing studying I went to Miguel Grau Primary School. Then I continue studying in the Pedro Portillo High School. Since I was small I liked very much to sing and to draw.
I did not study at the university for being of short economic resources and I started to work as a mechanic repairing cars and motors. One day a friend saw to me drawing and he ask to me why I not study more about this; I said because I have not money and he told me about a school free of charfe Usko Ayar. I was very surprised when I met to Mr. Pablo Amaringo and then I became a student also on September 26 1991. Now I am a teacher but I am continuing learning from don Pab lo's teaching many wise things that in the society we never could learn. I work as a mechanic and I am painting too.

MAURO REATEGUI PEREZ

I have born in Mariscal Castillia a town in the banks of the Ucayali river on May 19th, 1973.
My parents are Don Alex Regtegui Carranza and Dona Soffa Perez Cashu.
My primary studies I did it in the Taoshitee town also in the Ucayali river banks, and my high school the first and second degree in the Victor, Andres Belaunde high scool and the third, fourth and fifth degree in the Faustino Maldonedo national high school in the Pucallpa city.
When I ready finished my studies I started to work, and in that work I have listen about the Usko-Ayar Amazonian School of Painting that I went to talk with Mr. Pablo Amaringo Shuna for being a student of drawing, painting a also to study the Eglish language.
In 1991 I because as a painter and now I am as a Painting teacher here in Usko- Ayar.

MIGUEL PINEDO PINEDO

I have born on November 01, 1963; in the Languages Institute of Summer, situated on the banks of the Yarinacocha lake at 8 kilo meters from Pucallpa city. Living since my childhood till now in San Jose de Yarinacocha. I grew in a humble family we are five but I am the unic man and I have four sisters. My father Augusto Pinedo Reyna and ,ny mother Luise Pinedo Silva, as I remember her as a evangelic cristian and she leaded me in the cristian values.' When I was I got a very dangerous accident that almost I died. I was playing with my cousisn as all living boy in my uncles; when one of my cousins took an old gun of my ancestors and shot to me, they took me on emergency to 'Uhe L.I.S.' clinic where I was feeling I was loosing myself into a cold and dark tunnel, the shoot was in my head and I suffer since that time of a nervous tension, I was loosing memory forgeting easily thing. strong head aches, and having problems to speak and many others concerning to my head. So I study the third grade in the primary school for three times, when I was 1O my parents decided do not study because I had those problems always I was crying all the time, faighting with my sisters because they knew more than me in their studies; but when I was 11 I learned, to read what a happiness for me it was like a window has opened for me, in my mind.
During my childhood and all those years of adventure I was a lover of football,, becoming one of the bests in the place I live and in the school. My father was happy for it, he like for me to play football, he did not tell me but he was buying me many balls, everybody were aying to him that I was too good with a good future, I fell in vanity tha I thought to be the best over the world, so and I was prcticing along. I played for a Dos de Mayo club when I was 14, a day playing with old people one the players broke my two legs where I was so painful and took me once more to the L.I.S. clinic I felt my dreams getting down and down, I spent 8 months laying on bed withou t walking, so I used my mind vnd my hands especially on learning drawing, drawing and drawing as I never did it it was my first school I had as reading and reading books and also writing. When I was 15 I went to the high school helping myself to walk with canes. 1 I finished my studies when I was 20 in 1983. Next year I beceme a student in the Instituto Superior Tecnologico, and as a young I was going to the meeting in the church so with a group I was singing, playing guitar and so on.' I let my studies that I was doing for not having money to support my family, so I started to work in my parents farm in the mean time I was writing songs and 1990-91 I studied music:in Pucallpa and that,time I wrote two literaies world: titled Biblic Drawings and Of the Daily life , so I wanted to publish them and I went to Lime but I did not get it and I came back to write the third one titled Poems,Verses, and bouquet of beautiful Strophes, finishing on 1993. So the same year I became a student in the Usko-Ayar Amazonian School of Painting. In the begining of 1994 when I was studyi ng about the school and its goals so I got an idea of writing my fourth book very ecologic that is almost finished. The jobs in the music and literature made possible to get in Usko-Ayar witth a goal of improve my artistic life and the school is very special not only for that but as a help and the school is for me now very important in my life I am descove ring things that I did not know as to love and respect the environment and to teach to the other ones to do it over the world. I always dream to become a good artist pure and transrent out of bad things, that cold not be able if God would not did a change since my youth with many responsabilities in my church as director in the music department, teacher and ministering the ooildays school, I was studying teology in ma ny cities of my country. As a farmer I like the fields Living in the nature near the caws, and I have real friends. I am 31 years old and I am trying to get the goal I decided with much sincerity, so that I did not decided yet to have marriage responsabilities.

MITA DEXI LOZANO P

I have born in the Tapiche District on October 20 1975. I am 19 years old. My parents are don Nicholas Lozano Vasquez and dona Sonia Rosa Paima Tapullima. I have studied till the fourth degree in the high school. because my parents did not have sufficient economic resources to continue studying, so but I did not loose my time and I knew about Usko Ayar and I start to study painting that is a beuatiful art in the Usko Ayar Azomaian School of Painting.
During fours years that I am in the school I am learning many things thank to don Pablo Amaringo' teachings but I think that I have to learn still more things.
In my free time I used to read and my hobby is to meditate. I know many places in the jungle as San Francisco, Alejandria and many others. We study in the mornings. I am also a painting teacher that is good for us and give me a encourage to continue ahead in my life.

MOISES LLERENA

I was born in 1975 in the village of Tamanco by the right shore of the river Ucayali, at the distance of about 48 hours by boat from Pucallpa in winter and 72 hours in summer. I am the eighth child of twelve; we are six boys and six girls in my family. My parents have maintained us by cultivating and keeping some animals.
I passed my childhood in Tamanco only until 5 years of age, after that my parents moved to another village where my father got work as a mechanic. In 1986 my eldest brother died and my parents decided to move to Pucallpa. I went to school and started to play music in a group. Once there was a pancarta where I drew a Shipibo woman with her child and a priest who saw it encouraged me to study art. I began to ask around and as Usko Ayar was the only school where one could study for free it suited me. This year I finished secondary school and entered to study electricity in an institute but my economic situation did not permit me that so now I continue painting.

NELSON N KROLL KOHEL

I was born in Pozuzo, in Tirolens, a small German colony in the high jungle of Cerro de Pasco, Peru, on March 29 1970. Both of my parents descend from Germany. When I was four years old the family moved first to Lima and then to Tingo Maria where I went to school. After five years we moved to Pucallpa. When I was thirteen I heard about the Usko Ayar Amazonian School of Painting and went there eager to improve my artistic qualities. I am now one of the art eachers. I have made paintings which have been exhibited in Europe.

NOE MACEDO NOLORBE

I have born on June 15, 1975, in Pucallpa, situated to the right side of the Ucayali river. My parents are Noe Macedo Tananta Emerita Nolorbe Pinedo both with short economic resources.
Pucallpa is a place rich in flora and fauna with a tropical weather, during the summer season, streets are very dusty but in the raining season the streets are very muddy. We have in the traditional folk evening shows in many houses with typical dances like in the carnivals and pandillas. Pheasants works in fishing, hunting, and timber.
I an the third in my family, for me It was unable to go to the school because we moved to live in the chacra and my parents did not have money for my studies, but I learned to fish, to hunt, to grow bananas and harvesting the products from the crops.
When I was 12 my family moved to live in Pucallpa again finishing my primary school in the 'Trebol school; My father was going to work far from the rivers and sometimes when my father was coming he was fighting with my mother I was suffering a lot. Then we moved to live in front of the Usko-Ayar Amazonian School of Painting where I met to don Pablo and I became a student of his school too. So I am learning to paint and I am happy because I am learning good and useful things in my life.