Jose Antonia Pineda Bueno was born in Granada, Spain in 1950. As a child, he had the tendency to play with a handful of colored pencils. When he was just six years old, his family - seeing the unusual interest young Jose Antonio displayed for drawing - decided to enroll him at the Escuela de Artes in Motril, where they lived. This marked the first stage in his never-ending path of color study. His first steps in the art works were as an illustrator. "Twenty-one long years lead me to permanently abandon illustration for the search of landscapes charmed by themagic Mediterranean dancing rocks, rough cliffs, and warm golden beaches that I could transfer to a canvas." Bueno takes a woman and melds her to her surroundings, turning her into a totality that is hard to remove. One that is joined to the soil, the sea, the color and the light. The simplicity of lines that governs his paintings turns them into something intrinsically beautiful, and makes way to a new, energized perspective of light.