XAVIER DE LA HUERGA
Musician, painter, digital artist, photographer, writer.

Born in the legendary island of San Borondon (Alfrica) and based in UK since 1989.

His education in the fine arts has been mainly autodidactic, being gifted with a talent for drawing, writing, music and rejecting the academic system from an early age. During his childhood he consistently won local and regional art competitions, culminating in a national prize at age 18 which kick-started his career as a painter. Several individual and collective exhibitions and commissions across Spain followed.

In 1984 he entered the Escuela Taller, a school where talented students were trained in stained glass window-making. After passing the psychometric test as number one out of 300 people contending for admittance, he went on to become Head of the Design Department for the co-operative founded by the students.

Three years later, Xavier left for London where he concentrated in developing his music, which resulted in several records and collaborations in the London underground scene (Tylluan O'Sinend, Fire & Ice, Solar Wings, Seventh Harmonic, The Agent). During this period he also started writing poetry and essays and began experimenting with computer graphics. His work was published in TOPY, Implant, Chaos International, Planet Art Network and was showed at exhibitions around London and the South West of England.

In 1999, after four years of independently studying the Maya civilization and their calendars, he trained in Chile under visionary art historian and Mayan Revival pioneer Jose Arguelles PhD and started lecturing and facilitating workshops in the UK, Spain, Portugal and eventually the US, which lead him to stay in California and Missouri between 2003 and 2004.

During the US period Xavier worked with best-selling author Ken Carey creating his official website. This encounter was a source of great insights. At this time also, he became involved with Greenfire 7 Generations Eco-Ministry and the Global Eco-Village Network as an artist, workshop facilitator and event organiser.

Upon his return to the UK in 2004, now in Bath, he undertook photography professionally and focussed on developing his painting and digital graphics skills. His recent work was shown in December 2006 at an individual exhibition in Walcot Chapel (Bath), under the title: "Return of the Prodigal Sun".

Xavier has also worked as a free-lance journalist, text translator, interpreter and Spanish language teacher. His paintings and graphic works are in private collections across Europe, the US and New Zealand.

Xavier's many interests include all kinds of esoteric lore, mythology, linguistics, semiotics, mayan calendrics, archaeoastronomy, alchemy, mysticism, gnosticism, numerology, cloud-gazing, tree-staring, star-watching and Vippassana meditation.

 

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