BIOGRAPHY. A native of southern Tolima (Chaparral, 1974, 2008), born of the union of two poor families emerging heated in the crucible of the ongoing violence in our country, his maternal grandfather, farmer, founder of today's liberal settler Can call the Beautiful, which hiso widower violence, leaving it in charge of 14 children, who grew up alone since most never married, and his paternal grandparents, living in urban areas, a acute social conscience. Both families caught in the tragic catastrophe of April 9 that the entire region area, pandemnium transformndola in pain, his parents (l, audience and her accountant, teacher) , raised a pulse and raised by a pure act of will and love of knowledge as a unique social table of redemption, Orlando Martinez Ramirez (Senior) and Gladys Castro turned on their children all that personal affection and love in learning, knowledge and freedom that they never received. From all this dense context l was born in what their parents do not even imagine, the early decision to be a painter, because culture has always seen as something reserved for the elite or insanity; strongly at the age of fifteen years take the road art with the seriousness and the delivery of a deep love of creation. Thus empezcomo self taught when complete fewer eighth high school, coming to the Academy (Academy of Arts of Bogotá) in 1992, with four years of autoformacin early, decisive always maintain their own freedom and discretion creative to the postmodern new wave, which, as violence swept the true art. Today, at treintaicuatro years of human life and artistic life, 19, always figurative, the Nephites expected that his work revolved around the social conflict presentndose, by the grace of the miracle of art Quite the contrary, his paintings from the beginning showed his marked taste for the search of the spiritual, traveling through its shape and color their own path of inner growth and self-awareness, acting as a canvas to diffract symbolically mirror their own realities. His style wanders or hybrid in complex ways, as their influences are as diverse ymltiples ranging from the most recalcitrant renaissance to impressionism, expressionism, surrealism and symbolism, among others, strengthening affairs solid and unique style in which techniques and ways to reconcile seemingly contradictory as esfmato with expressionist brushwork, or symbolism to realism and landscape. Baroque rich world of images and vibrant colors are his paintings, each built with spontaneous anger and subtle balance in the swing of the pendulum between the conscious and subconscious of this, the supra conscious, their images are fed the confrontation of internal and external, on the one hand the rich, and variegated color and acid its landforms reginy other of his thoughts and inner mystical ecstasy, the drama of his obsessions and his personal history. Today didactic interacts between his vocation as a university lecturer and his personal work, which was not only pictorial, it already has 2 large audience murals (Central Park, Chaparral Tol) in low highlighted in ceramics, in addition to its new search for travs expression of the sculpture, exploring subjects very close to his heart like ceramics and wood.