Pedro Cano

Pedro Cano is a Spanish painter, born in Blanca, in the Region of Murcia, in 1944. He began painting in oil on his own at the age of eleven, and in 1965 he entered the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in Madrid with a grant from the Provincial Council of Murcia. In 1969, he received a landscape grant from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study at the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, a city that played an important role in his career.

His work is mainly developed through painting, watercolor, and drawing. Landscape, Mediterranean light, the Murcian orchard, travel, and daily life are central references in his work. His images invite us to observe calmly the relationship between memory, nature, architecture, and personal experience.

In 2008, the Pedro Cano Foundation was created in Blanca to preserve, exhibit, and share his work. His awards include the Gold Medal at the Florence Biennial of Painting and Sculpture in 1971, the Gold Medal at the Florence Biennial of Graphic Arts in 1972, his appointment as Favorite Son of Blanca in 1986, his admission as a full member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Santa María de la Arrixaca in Murcia in 2001, and the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts in 2022. Leer menos