Captain Federico Tomás Vera presents a new pictorial exhibition at the Casa de Las Tejerinas: ‘Captains of the Sea’.

The exhibition will remain on display from January 19 to February 11, with free access until full capacity is reached.

Estepona City Council informs that Room 2 of the Casa de Las Tejerinas, located in the Plaza de las Flores, will host from next Monday, January 19, a new exhibition of paintings by the Captain of the Merchant Marine, Federico Tomás Vera.

The sample consists of 19 pictorial works and is entitled ‘Captains of the Sea’, and can be visited until February 11 from Tuesday to Friday, from 09:00 to 20:00 hours, and Saturdays from 09:00 to 14:00 and 16:00 to 20:00 hours, with free access.

Federico Tomás Vera is a native of Beniaján, Murcia, and is based in Estepona. He grew up on the shores of the Mar Menor, due to his father’s assignment in the infrastructure service of the Alcáceres Naval Air Base.

His first eight years were spent among the fishermen of beautiful lateen sailing boats of that town, “being impressed by the incomparable image of the arrival of the boats with the catch, at sunset, with their glorious cotton sails swollen by the wind”. His seafaring vocation overcame that of an architect and his destiny has been that of Captain of the Merchant Navy, Captain of Motor and Sailing Yachts and Graduate in Applied Arts.

As a second activity, he has focused on oil painting of marine themes, especially those of ships of the period and their port activity or in full navigation; and watercolors of archaeological reconstruction themes. He has been trained at the Escuela Artes Aplicadas de Algeciras, at the Escuela Artes y Oficios de Palma de Mallorca (classical statuary drawing, modeling and oil painting), and at the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid (drawing of live models from life).

Since 1959 he has exhibited his work in cities such as Valencia, Palma de Mallorca, Copenhagen, Fano Island, Casablanca, New York, New Orleans, Estepona (“Murcia, Paisajes de Campo y Mar” 1976; Baños Árabes en Al-Ándalus, 2014; “Latin Sails”, 2020, “Living Nature, Dead Nature” 2022, “Ships of the International Merchant Marine School”, 2023), Algeciras, Alberca de las Torres (Muercia), Manilva, Madrid, Alora, San Roque, Malaga, Tarifa, Cartagena, San Pedro del Pinatar, Antequera, Granada, Almeria….

His work can be found in public and private collections, such as the School of Arts and Crafts of Palma de Mallorca, the Peña “La Seda” of Alberca de Las Torres, Murcia, the Naval Museum of Cartagena, the Hermandad Marineros de La Carihuela, Torremolinos, or the School of Applied Arts of Algeciras, among others.