Career
Amancha began painting and drawing at the age of 5. He would apply India ink to Salina"s drawings for which he got paid 100-120 sucres per week. At the age of 16 he painted the mural for the Loans Bank of Ambato.
He earned a Fine Art"s degree from the Central University of Ecuador.
He has an art gallery in Guayaquil, in the neighborhood Las Peñas, on the historic street named Numa Pompilio Llona, where he keeps his paintings and sculptures. Amancha paints for about 16–18 hours per day.
Since the beginning of his art career, he has done close to 7,000 paintings. He has worked with oil, acrylic, pastel, carbon and pencil, but mainly paints with watercolor.
He has shared exhibitions with world-renowned artists from Ecuador such as Oswaldo Guayasamín, Eduardo Kingman, Bolívar Mena Franco, and Anibal Villacis.
He has also done individual exhibitions in Quito, Guayaquil, Ambato, Colombia, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Washington, New York, Miami, Madrid, and France, among many other places. Amancha has stated that, like many other artists, his first influences were Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso. But that his true major influence is the Ecuadorian writer Juan Montalvo (b 1832 - d 1889).
