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Salvador Loreto Artist

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Salvador Loreto Artist

A full blooded gypsy born in Algeciras, Spain in 1942. Came to Australia in 1966. Visual artist. Work not limited to one style.

Famous for his portraits of the late Don Dunstan, one is hanging in Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre. Salvador Loreto is a full-blooded Spanish gypsy born in Algeciras, Spain to family whose tradition is flamenco and bullfighting.A former bullfighter, he gave away this career after being badly gored by a bull at the age of 15 years.He had started painting and drawing at a very early age

, but when his bullfighting career ended, he turned to singing and painting which became his greatest love and passion.Due to discrimination against gypsies in Franco’s Spain, Loreto never received a formal education however he was able to study in various art schools in Algeciras, Madrid and Bilbao. He later began to exhibit as a solo artist. On his arrival in Australia in 1966, he discovered a new landscape and people and a freedom of expression, which he gladly embraced. However, his Spanish gypsy, cultural roots have remained a reference point for his painting.His works demonstrate his extraordinary talent for expressing himself in different styles, always with that touch of surrealism which good Spanish artists are unable to resist. In Adelaide, one of the highlights of his career was to twice have the privilege of painting the authorised portraits of the late Don Dunstan, former Premier of South Australia. Dunstan considered Loreto a pure and great artist whose work was relevant to everyday life and happily agreed to sit for him. These paintings now have great historical significance in South Australia. During his long and varied career Loreto has exhibited in Europe and Japan and Singapore. In Australia - in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Private collections can be found in Australia (New Norcia and Perth-Western Australia, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Tasmania) Paris, Switzerland, Nagoya-Japan and Spain. Available for commissions and exhibitions – for more information please contact the artist.

28/07/2026

Dear followers in late June, I had a health scare which left me temporarily (I hope) with eye sight issues, in particular seeing double. It has stopped me from painting and completing my current works at the moment. I was taken to the Royal Adelaide Hospital where it was believed I had had a stroke and was kept waiting for 'urgent' attention in Emergency for 16 hours. Following that I had to wait 2 weeks for an 'urgent MRI' to be told it was not a stroke however I have been waiting since early July for an 'urgent' opthalmology appointment to find out what the damage is to my eyes. The good news is that it was not a stroke but a blocked blood vessel from my brain to my eye causing the problem. If it had been a stroke I would not be alive to post this. I have been unofficially told my 'urgent' opthalmology appointment is now late September. if it doesn't get postponed which is possible. I am hopeful that this condition will improve and be managed so that I can paint and exhibit again.

09/05/2026

Just found out that I won a Talent Prize Award in the landscape section of Terravarna for my painting of Trees of Athelstone.

26/04/2026

Another Honourable Mention Award in the Open Terravarna international competition for The Feminine Tomato and I am Retired paintings.

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