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Phil Carrero Gallery:
Brief artist background notes: (extracted from "Artist has brush with thieves", Macarthur Advertiser, January 2004)
Currans Hill artist Phil Carrero started as an impressionable 16 year old drawing charcoal portraits through the streets of Buenos Aires. He worked his way up from drawing to painting and begun to sell his works around that time.
Coming to Australia in 1973 , at the age of 23, Mr Carrero continued his studies in Art and completed an apprenticeship for four months to get himself better acquainted with portraiture painting. Meanwhile, for almost ten years produced and sold many ship portraits and marine paintings.
"After that I begun getting around 12 commissions a year for just portraits. That's when painting portraits became my living", he said.
He paints in the "Traditional", "Realistic" style ... English and Italian schools, his portraits resemble, by petition, the Grand Manner style of the 19th and 20th centuries in England and later, America.
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