Gustav Manel is a Self-taught painter and writer, Born in Agua Dulce Veracruz in 1970. At the age of 11 he moved with his parents to Puebla where he finished his basic education at the Benavente La Salle school. Later in 1988 he moved to Merida with the family, where he currently lives. He studied Architecture at the Autonomous University of Yucatan (UADY) and graduated in 1995. From an early age he showed interest in the plastic arts and in particular abstract art and expressionist of painters such as Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich, Víctor Vasarely, Alexander Calder, Carlos Mérida, Rufino Tamayo, Magali Lara, Paul Klee, Picasso, Mark Rothko, Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock and two great Yucatecan painters who influenced him with their art: Fernando García Ponce and Gabriel Ramírez whose works he still admires. The art of these painters pushes him to want to develop and express an art sensitive to the daily changes of life itself, which invites us to evolve at all times, ideas, thoughts, human relationships and every gesture and intention that can be captured on paper or canvas expressing a feeling, an experience with a color palette that can also make you laugh and cry, speak without speaking, and connect with those minds that are willing to listen with the power of eyes.