Valeriano Cortázar is from Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid).

From a very young person feels connected to the arts, especially painting that has a special relation, his uncle, Emilio Perez, known impressionist painter in the Principality of Asturias to which a child was able to observe in Ribadesella painting during summers spent at home and has always felt admiration.
He began his painting in 1974. In those years he began his career by impressionist acrylic and oil paintings in which he offers his interpretation of reality that never express what it is, but as it feels.
Self-taught, used as a learning experiment, this will to express their feelings freely, away from external influences, capturing in his paintings of nature seen by your imagination.

Began exhibiting in 1980, his first solo exhibition at the CC La Cañada.
In January 1996, out in DC The Jaramilla. In November of that same year he exhibited in Madrid, in the Hall of Culture of Caja Navarra is located in Juan Bravo, 3.
In June 1998, exhibits his work at the Egyptian Institute for Islamic Studies in Madrid.
In April 1999 the gallery exhibits art Massa 10.

In February 2010, set out in the Garden Gallery of Madrid Serrano - Calle Goya 6-8.
Through its exhibitions have been able to see his paintings energetic, full of energy and life, whether through an exhilarating and provocative color or his other works tinged with gray.
His style, in his anti-academic is figurative and close to Surrealism, especially in his earlier works. Women in its many forms and meanings, starring many of the paintings, others are landscapes, open skies, often with the sea of Asturias in the background.
Madrid and is attracted to architectural structures, perhaps because of that in his urban landscapes cement moles appear diffuse, always viewed from the perspective of distance and nuanced in gray.
Since 1999 he has initiated a move towards the abstract and informality.