Marcos Rey is a self-taught Spanish painter born in 1978. He has devoted his life to painting professionally for more than ten years. His studio located in Arequipa is where he acquired his unique technique and method. The works of old artists including Rembrandt, Michel Bormans, Nicola Samuri, Vincent Desiderio, Oud Ndrum, Goulocho, and he studied and was influenced by contemporary artists and realist masters of the 19th century, such as Wilhelm Hammershöy, Emile Friant, Abbott Henderson Thayer, Charles Frederick Ulrich. He says: Painting has always been a part of my life, I am learning all the time, I don't have an academic art education, and I believe that the most important knowledge is obtained through thinking in art. My favorite subject and what fascinates me the most is the human portrait. When I focus on portrait painting, I'm not so interested in examining the psychology of people and I'm not playing the role of a visual psychologist, I'm just portraying my personal impression.