Gustavo Surlo

Brazil

Born 1996

Gustavo Surlo was born in Itamaraju, Brasil in 1996. He took drawing classes from the age of 6, with Samuel Ribeiro as a teacher. At 2017 he graduated as biologist from the University of Bahia and in 2018 was chosen as a Margaret Mee scholar at RBG, Kew. His first international award came at the age of 18, at the Latin American Congress of Botany, for portraying an endangered orchid. The main objective of his work is to encourage the preservation of the species portrayed.