Patricio Cueva Jaramillo
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Patricio Cueva Jaramillo (born in Cuenca, Ecuador, 28 December 1928) is a Latin American painter and journalist.
He was a child of Carlos Cueva Tamariz (1898-1991) and Rosa Esther Jaramillo Montesinos. Cueva's family was middle-class; nevertheless his father was a distinguished politician and professor of the University of Cuenca. His youngest brother, Juan Cueva Jaramillo, is also a politician and diplomat.
He studied economics and political science in Paris and Prague in the late 40s and early 50s and later married and divorced the Ecuadorian ballet dancer Noralma Vera Arrata. He worked in Cuba as a journalist at the Granma where he met the young Gabriel García Marquez.
As a painter, the ecuadorian landscape is he's most recurrent theme. His latest exhibition was in Quito, in the cultural centre of the Alliance française in July 2007. Although a close friend of the painter Eduardo Kingman and his brother Nicolas, Cueva's work is not influenced by Kingman's famous expresionist hands. They worked together at the Caspicara Gallery in Quito.
He lives in Quito, Ecuador from where he weakly writes for the Newspaper La Hora and paints.
