International Artist Luis De La Lama received his first lessons in drawing and painting at age five from his father, a painter himself. He continued his artistic training at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, graduating in 1981.

Luis was appointed Dean of the Arts department of the Universidad Iberoamericana del Noroeste, where he also taught advanced drawing, design, and art techniques. He held this position until he emigrated to the U.S. to establish himself as a digital artist in San Francisco, California.

In 1989 he founded an international self-actualization school with his wife Lille. They moved to Maui, Hawaii, and trained students from fourteen countries. While Luis traveled world-wide for nine years he studied the Old Masters in World-class museums, such as the Rijksmuseum in Holland; the Museo del Prado in Spain; the Musée d' Louvre and the Musée d' Orsay in France; the London National Gallery, the Tate Gallery, and the Birmingham Museum of Art in England; and the Washington National Gallery and the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art in the U.S.

In 1998 Luis became a member of The Portrait Society of America, since then he has painted the portraits of European nobility as well as the families of American celebrities.

Like the Old Masters, Luis De La Lama builds, stretches, and primes his canvases by hand. He uses the finest Belgian linen as substrate for his paintings, and prepares his oil-medium with a special resin used by the European Renaissance and Baroque Masters, which he has shipped directly from Greece.

To achieve that unique Transcendent Presence found only in the works of the Old Masters, the artist diligently layers his paint day after day using techniques such as impastos, scumblings, and glazings-taking all the time needed to create a great work of art.