Olga Sinclair is an artist

Artist

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 and figurative painter

Figure painting

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She participated for the first time in a collective exhibition amongst professional painters at the age of just 14.

She started painting studies with her father, the painter Alfredo Sinclair

Alfredo Sinclair

Alfredo Sinclair is a Panamanian artist. He was born in Panama City. He was the first to explore abstraction. He studied with Humberto Ivaldi at the National School of Painting and later in Argentina, between 1947 and 1951....

 and went in 1976 to the Academy of Applied Arts in Madrid

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, Spain

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. There she also did three years classic art drawing lessons at the Arjona Studio.

Back in Panama she obtained her BA-degree

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 in Interior Design

Interior design

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 in 1984. At the same time she took engraving lessons in Giangranddi Studio. Then she continued her studies in London

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 for another two years. In 1987 she married Hans Risseeuw (whom she divorced 20 years later) and they moved to Bolivia

Bolivia

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 where Olga was Cultural Attaché

Cultural attaché

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 to the Panamanian Embassy. After that they went to Jakarta

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, Indonesia

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where their two daughters Natasha and Suzanna were born. Since 1994 Olga and her family reside again in Panama.