Born in 1961 in Mexico City, he comes from a family of painters. On his father's side his great-grandfather Daniel del Valle was Diego Rivera's teacher in La Esmeralda, he exhibits at the MUNAL in Mexico. His mother Ana Mercedes Azcué, a painter by training, dedicated her life to painting, leaving more than 150 oil paintings of impressive Mexican landscapes and indigenous deities of Mexico. Alfonso never took painting classes, he learned to paint by watching and painting. He paints for his passion of doing it. Since he was a child, he watched his mother and his grandparents spend hours sitting in front of an easel, enjoying coloring a canvas, drawing mountains, rivers, fantastic characters, faces, landscapes, indigenous deities, and whatever they could imagine out of nothing. The absence of a formal school allows Alfonso del Valle to play with the textures and essential characteristics of oils, alcohols, enamels, natural inks, paper, natural pigments, and sands, turning painting in his very personal case, into a powerful creative expression of color. , nuances and freedom. An admirer of Picasso, Paul Klee, Kandinsky, Monet, Tamayo, Alejandro Ramírez, Olga Sánchez, and Dr. Atl, among others, his painting evokes something of the painters he admires, which, as in all painters, has gradually grown developing the process of discovering his own style and artistic proposal. Discover and enjoy the painting of Alfonso del Valle Azcué, an emerging painter with an artistic proposal full of personal nuances and undoubtedly very particular.