Marta Paramo is a 24 year girl with Down syndrome who has become one of the 12 best Down artists in Spain. She began to paint with only four years, and on her first participation in a contest became the revelation. Her creativity and her flair with the canvases has helped her reproduce with perfection works such as that of the painter Fortuny. In the past, the maximum price that had been paid for a work of a Down artist was 600 euros. However Marta managed to sell one for 1,500 Euros. Even the Thyssen museum has recognized her mastery and has exhibited some of her creations.
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MARTA PARAMO, RECORD OF SALE OF A PAINTING OF ART-DOWN:

The 17 years Down syndrome painter Down, MARTA PARAMO (Madrid, 1993, www.martaparamo.com), sold her painting, reproduction of the original of Mariano Fortuny (Prado Museum-1874), “The sons of the painter in the Japanese lounge “, that she presented at the recent Exhibition “THE EMBRACE OF THE ART” at the Matadero Gallery in Madrid, organized by the Down Syndrome Foundation, for 1,500 Euros. An unprecedented record in the Art-Down universe. To date, the maximum amount reached in the sale of a painting by an artist with Down syndrome was 600 Euros.

The painting by MARTA PARAMO, “The Children of the Painter in the Japanese Lounge”, was acquired by Yolanda Ruiz León and José Pérez Rigueiro, private collectors and parents of Dani, a 2 year old boy, also with Down syndrome.

In 2008, with only 15 years, and in her first participation, Marta Páramo won the 1st PRIZE of the XVI INTERNATIONAL PAINTING CONTEST FOR DOWN SYNDROME ARTISTS with the painting “The Crest of my hand”, awarded with 1,800 Euros. In 2009, she won the 2nd and 3rd PRIZE on the same contest. She has also won several other painting awards and has already sold more than 50 paintings to individuals and institutions such as Banco Santander, Repsol, Comunidad de Madrid,

Marta Paramo was chosen by the Down Syndrome Foundation as one of the 12 artists with this syndrome who participated in the innovative art project “The Embrace of Art”.
This event brought together 12 interior designers and 12 fashion designers selected among the pointers of Spain with 12 Down artists, forming 12 teams that were assigned 12 paintings of the main Spanish painters.
Each Down painter made a reproduction of the painting assigned , which was the center of the macro-stand decorated and dressed by Interior Designers and Designers of each of the 12 artistic teams. The 12 stands of “El Abrazo del Arte” were exhibited for several months in the Matadero Gallery in Madrid under the sponsorship of the main Spanish corporations.
Marta Paramo was assigned the painting of Mariano Fortuny, “The Children of the Painter in the Japanese lounge”, with the designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada and Interior Designer Mamen Garcia de la Hoz