Juan D’Greck was born in the Colombian Andes in 1941. He studied Fine
Arts at the University of Caldas in Manizales, where he earned a scholarship
to attend the School of Plastic Arts in Bogotá’s National University, from which he graduated in 1961.
A true artist by nature, D’Greck has lived for and by his art since the 1960s, although in his early years he experienced with television scenography, ran an art gallery in Bogotá, and taught at the University of Caldas.
Following the advise of a respected art critic, the young D’Greck left the bustling art scene of Bogotá and went back to the mountains to find his inner self. There, during 30 years of living in communion with nature, and experimenting with every possible element, he mastered over 140 art techniques—including two of his own.