Marcial Camilo: born in 1951 in San Agustin Oapan on the Balsas river in Guerrero, Mexico.Like most members of his familyMarcial first painted on fragile clay pots. Later he used Amate, paper made from tree bark.
The Smithsonian Institution recognized Marcial as one of the foremost native painters of the region and exhibits his works. His paintings are in private collections, in special exhibitions and museums in the U.S.A. and other countries beyond Mexican borders. He lives in Cuernavaca to paint and send his children to school.The family’s language is Nahuatl, though he speaks and reads Spanish. Several times a month Marcial makes the four-hour bus and taxi trip to his village to tend his fields and to participate in the administrative council of his village.