THE AUTHOR
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Hanging Bridge (Portugalete)
Clemente Garay Zabala, a native of Bilbao, received oil painting classes from a very young age in the workshop of the figurative painter Jesús del Olmo, in Burgos. He studied architecture in Madrid and in 1972 he traveled to the US and enrolled in Larry Griffin's drawing classes for the human figure. In turn, he took classes in Algebra, Physics, Technical Drawing and Art History at Miami-Dade College.
In 1977, he opened Las Arenas Restaurant in Miami. Moment in which Dorotea's recipe booklet reaches his hands, on a trip that his mother makes to the US to visit him.
Between 1981 and 1986, he resumed and finished his studies in Architecture obtaining his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Idaho. In this same university, he received watercolor classes with William L'Hote during the years 1983-1985.
Clemente Garay. Monasterio de San Pedro de Arlanza, Burgos.
Acuarela 1983.
The author in the studio
DPZ&Co. Miami Florida. 1987.
Model of the Hotel Barcelona Princess, 1987; in collaboration with Oscar Tusquets.
In 1987, and until 1991, he worked as an architect at the DPZ&Co. studio in Miami. A year later, he moved to Barcelona and worked with the architect Óscar Tusquets until 2000. After his stay in Catalonia, he moved to Tarifa (Cádiz) where he worked on different architectural commissions.
Currently , he continues to live near this beautiful town in the south of Spain, where he has his studio where he dedicates himself to developing different artistic and culinary projects.
Cuisine and art are two disciplines strongly linked to the identity of Clemente Garay and have accompanied him throughout his life experience.