Mauricio Gómez discovered his art vocation relatively late in life, when a promising career as a television director was interrupted and he was forced into exile. When he arrived in Paris his passion for art erupted with such strength that he finally surrendered to it. Since that moment, he has devoted himself to painting. But even that salvation has not been an easy one: an illness left him without the use of his right hand so he was forced to abandon his favourite medium, oils and to work with his less familiar left hand. This physical handicap only spurred him to explore and then master other techniques and new media: collage, new pigments, texture, and volume combined with an impressive use of colour-work that radiates an unquenchable dedication to art.