Anto Otoya (Revelstoke/Colombia) painted this mural for the 2024 Nelson International Mural Festival.

About the artist: Antonia Otoya is a contemporary Colombian painter and mural artist whose emotionally charged realistic portraiture, nature scenes and ambitious large-scale murals have been the subject of solo and group exhibitions in galleries and street art festivals and fairs since 2013.

Antonia’s work is an intimate look into the subject’s most sincere and vulnerable inner world, externalized through the presence of symbolic elements; it combines precision in execution with humor and character.