Javier Niño was born in September 1950, in the heart of Puerto Vallarta. As a child, he began to draw and paint self-taught at the November 20 elementary school, without any teacher, only his imagination, using pencil, his notebook, and Chinese ink. Unaware of what was pictorial art and its history. He always rested in the back of the classroom at the last desks, without paying attention to what his teachers taught, he only cared to imagine fantasies and to fill them with characters of magical colors that would become part of his unique style.
Twenty years later, in 1970, he decided to emigrate to Mexico City desirous to learn more about the art of painting. He entered the Academy of San Carlos (National School of Plastic Arts), where he learned the history of art, the great masters of classical, and contemporary painting. “He is the current leader of the particular naïf style initiated by Manuel Lepe which provides artistic identity to Puerto Vallarta. His exquisite work represents the rich natural beauty of this wonderful town. Beyond the aesthetic achievements, his work portrays and describes, with a deep and distinctive sense of expression, the wildlife, legends, and stories from this region” (Banderas News, Jan. 2019).
