A Master artist, Heraclio Guevara is a present day master of the classic imagery perpetuated by the Escuela Quiteña (Quito School), an artistic tradition dating back to the time of the Spanish colonial period of the 17th and 18th centuries. Heraclio Guevara was born in San José de Minas, a small but beautiful village in the Ecuadorian highlands, not far from the Metropolitan District of Quito, on the seventeenth of September, 1966. There, he lived with his family until the age of fourteen. Encouraged by his parents and teachers he made the decision to study in the School of Fine Arts at the Universidad Central del Ecuador. He later completed his higher education in the School of Fine Arts at the aforementioned University. Completing his studies in 1990, his innate talent along with the education he received allowed him to remain as a teaching assistant in the area of engraving, and posteriorly lecture in the subject of shape and colour. In 1991 he opened his first experimental studio fusing the ancestral art of imagery with the techniques, mediums and resources of modern plastics and conceptual artistic language. His intellectual prowess, cultural awareness, creativity, sensibility, research and impeccable ethics have enabled Heraclio Guevara to consolidate himself as a Contemporary Master Artist of imagery with outstanding capabilities for expressing himself undividedly through the language of plastic arts. Presently, his art studio – gallery is educating high-level artists who with great effort and education may become the new representatives of this beautiful and sacred work.