Roberto Ugalde was born in Queretaro , Mexico , He loved to draw and paint since he was a boy ; his love for art guided him to study at the Instituto National de Bellas Artes INBA. Roberto Ugalde is an adept oil painter who expresses the essence of his subjects in a way that draws the viewer into the painting. He masters the use of oils in an impressionistic manner which breathes life to his landscapes and figures. Contemporary landscape artist Roberto Ugalde possesses what can only be described as an alchemical gift-the ability to transform simple observations of nature into explosive symphonies of light and color. Born in Rio Blanco a small village nestled in the Sierra Madre mountains range of Queretaro, Mexico, Ugalde's artistic vision was shaped by the panoramic vistas, flowing rivers and abundant wildlife surrounding his childhood home. Roberto excels his use of oil in an impressionistic manner applied mostly with palette knife and brilliant and heavy paint strokes. However, his new direction finds him experimenting with liquid industrial oil paint dropped in an horizontal board, and manipulating the color to mix them and control the shapes of his subjects . "Every time I look around me I see this beautiful world full of colors and forms and my first impulse is to transform my vision and emotions in a way that connects and reconnects people to nature" Ugalde reflects this profound connection to the natural world manifests most powerfully in his signature subject: Aspen trees and the ethereal dance of light through their leaves and trunks.A friend once captured the essence of Ugalde's mastery by invoking the words of poet Mary Oliver, "Roberto has the most gifted way of capturing trees as they turn their own bodies into pillars of light. At times it blows my mind, because the way the light filters into his art? it's like I'm standing in a photograph of an Aspen grove." Roberto's art breaks up stale preconceptions and banality. His paintings explode like the Big Bang, some from the center out, some in dense grids of trees. He opens inner or outer dimensions previously unexperienced before coming upon a piece of his work. In 1994 he emigrated to the United States.He began showing and selling his work through commissions and galleries in Mexico and the United States.