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Sanchez Muñoz - biography
Biography
 
 
Rafael Sánchez Muñoz was born in Madrid. He studied Drawing and Painting in the ‘Fine Art School’ and he also learnt Graphic Design. He worked as an Art Director in several publicity agencies Since 1975 he works as an author, illustrator and designer in the children’s literature field. He has a long trajectory with many published works in this creative aspect.

He has illustrated books written by several authors, moreover he has written, illustrated and designed his own books for children.

He has carried out many cultural activities and colloquies in the field of the children’s illustration, and he has organized collective itinerant exhibitions from "Illustrators from Madrid Professional Association". He designed and carried out the graphic corporative image (Logo).

His works are reflected in: "SPANISH ILLUSTRATORS (National Institute of Spanish Book), IMAGES AND WORDS" (Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha), ART IN BOOKS (Junta de Castilla-León), etc.

On the other hand, SANCHEZ MUÑOZ has carried out several collections of drawing with bright colour about MADRID, TOLEDO, SEGOVIA, CUENCA, VALLADOLID, PEDRAZA and many landscapes of Castilla. Likewise, he has carried out several exhibitions in different cities of Spain with a wide variety of landscapes and still life in watercolour paintings. He also has cultivated mural painting, standing out one of them which is kept in the Public Library of Alcobendas (Madrid) an the mural painting of light, movement and colour for "Principe de Asturias School", because of which he got the GOLD MEDAL of Autonoma University of Madrid.

He was selected to represent in the International Salon of Paris with the advertising poster "Jazz in Pedraza de la Sierra", in the exhibition "the best 150 Posters in the World" organized by UNESCO and the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PLASTIC ARTS.

Moreover, we can find his works in private collections in SPAIN, IRELAND, ENGLAND, SWEDEN, NORWAY, AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND, GERMANY, FRANCE, PORTUGAL, BELGIUM, HOLLAND, LUXEMBOURG, ITALY, BRAZIL, CANADA, U.S.A., THE ARGENTINE, MEXICO, VENEZUELA, COLOMBIA, GUATEMALA, AUSTRALIA and JAPAN.

Mass Media have praised highly the creative works of this Madrilenian painter, artist, illustrator and designer, in regional newspapers and magazines of Madrid, and in addition to this in several radio programmes like "Platero’s children" in Radio3 (RNE) "Nowadays Mirador" (Radio Intercontinental) "Today in Madrid" (RNE), and even in TVE there was a report about his works in the programme "Week" and several interviews with him in "People" and in "Magazine" on Regional television of Segovia.

Famous people of the cinema, theatre, literature, radio, TV, music, sports, restoration and medicine have Sanchez Muñoz’s original works, which were given them in commemorative ceremonies celebrated in the Segovian Center of Madrid.
 

 
SANCHEZ MUÑOZ
has an art gallery of his work in Pedraza de la Sierra (Segovia - Spain).
 
 
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