João Zarro was born in 1976 in Nazaré (Portugal) where he attended high school till he was 18 years old.

Then he moved to Lisbon to study Economics at college.

After finishing his degree, he became a bank employee.

Painting and drawing arose almost simultaneously with marriage when he finally found the light that inspires his life.

Initially focused on charcoal portrait of family and friends, he gradually changed the approach of his painting to landscapes and monuments and tried new techniques and equipments.

It is a simple painting, unpretentious, which intends to amuse everyone around it.

Adapting a phrase from a friend, "to live is a challenge, to paint is the solution".