Erwin Guillermo is a Guatemalan expressionist artist born in Guatemala City in 1951. Expressionism and symbolism glows in themes such as traditions, politics, festivities, popular icons, and social contradictions like anguish, despair, and love. In his colourful works, fruits, animals and the exuberance of the Guatemalan Tropics figure mesh to transmit emotions and establish a dialogue between spectator and the artist. He studied art at The National School of Arts in Guatemala City and has shown internationally in Germany, London, Taiwan, New York, San Antonio,Texas, Mexico, and Central America. He has also received numerous prizes, awards and distinctions for his work. He currently lives and works in Guatemala City. His expressionistic, figurative and symbolic style comes to us through his fruits, animals, flowers, and masks combined with sensual and styled human forms, transmitting to the spectator the emotion, intuition and creativity that the artist manifests consistently in his work. His 30 years career has been enriched constantly with many experiences, acquired through his constant curiosity to explore new ways of expression. The intelligent management of artistic mediums has given him the capacity to excel in different techniques and express his own experimental manifestations to a level that situates him between the best artists of his generation. Different sources that go from the political to the poetical sublimation of his lifetime experiences have inspired his work for more than four decades. With all these resources he is able to transmit the necessary emotion to open the channels of communication between the viewer and the creation of the artist. With his vast academic training and the vast knowledge acquired during his long career, Erwin Guillermo gives priority to the sudden and intuitive manifestation of artistic creation, providing his work the personal emotion that makes his paintings so different from any other artist of his time. Erwin Guillermo has been capable of using to the maximum all sources of inspiration. He has portrayed the daily political struggle of the Guatemalan people, the traditions, the contradictions and festivities of his country creating with this a rich visual source of information.