Ricardo Camarena Flores was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1956.

 

His enthusiasm for drawing has developed  since his childhood. He graduated from the Escuela Preparatoria 'Lázaro Cárdenas' in Baja California.

 

In the following years he dedicated himself to technical drawings and was publishing cartoons in local newspapers of
Baja California and Oaxaca. 

 

In 1984 he moved to Austria, where he worked at numerous graphical art-shops and he participated in a course on etching at the open School of Arts in Vienna (Wiener Kunsthochschule).

As a result, he developed a singular method of working applying various techniques such as soft-ground, etching ground, aquatint, mezzotint engravings, and sugared water plus Indian ink.

 

As an autodidact, he also achieved new ways of expression and a very personal style by using pastel crayons and experimenting profoundly on the basis of their special character and consistency.

 

In 1985, he founded his workshop for painting and graphics in Austria, and was accepted as a member of the union for the promotion of arts in Stockerau, Lower Austria in the same year.

 

Since 1986, he has been a member of the Professional Confederation of Austrian Artists as well as of the Collecting Society of Austrian Artists. Shortly thereafter he was recognised as a free-lance artist by a commission of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education and Arts.