The Art of Sherlock Holmes Artist 29 - Pedro Linares
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The Artist
Pedro Linares Herrero, born on September 28, 1972, in the city of Camagüey, Cuba. He studied the career of Visual Arts since he was 12 years old, within the educational system of Special Artistic Teaching of Cuba. He has studied in Technical Sculpture and graduated from the Plastic Arts career at the Higher Institute of Art of Havana, Cuba, with the speciality of engraving. Since 2002, he start living in the city of Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico, where he creates a huge part of his work, every day more consolidated and in constant evolution. After living for more than 5 years in Mexico, he start the naturalization process and became a Mexican citizen.
Nowadays he represent Mexico, through Impulso Galería. Currently, he is still living in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico, and has more than 20 years of professional career increasing every day and in constant renovation. He has participated multiple times on collective exhibitions in Cuba, Colombia, Japan, Spain and Mexico. He has also made several personal exhibitions. His works are part of personal collections in Cuba, Spain, US, Japan and Mexico.
The Story
Pedro's piece for the Art of Sherlock Holmes is based on the story The Watcher In The Woods by Denis O Smith. Denis's first Sherlock Holmes story, The Purple Hand, was published in 1982. Since then he has written more than forty stories, recording previously unknown cases of the world’s most famous detective. These have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and in collections of his own, most recently The Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes, The New Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes and The Further Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes. Born in Sheffield, in the north of England, Mr Smith now lives in the rural county of Norfolk. His interests, other than the career of Sherlock Holmes, include old maps, historical mysteries of all kinds, the history of London, and the railways of Britain.
The authenticated prints of 'The Watcher In The Woods' is available from The Conan Doyle Estate.
The Merchandise
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