About Visions Art Center
Visions Art Center Limitada is a registered Costa Rican company, owned and operated by Francisco Castro Lostalo and Tony Magee.
Under the umbrella of Visions Art Center, Visions Gallery is a commercial art gallery with its principal focus on original Costa Rican art in a great variety of media, subjects and styles.
Our new gallery in Santa Ana de Belén, Guanacaste is the largest gallery of original Costa Rican art in the region and one of the largest in the entire country.
Our new location is more visible and more convenient for our clients and visitors in and near Pacific beach communities such as Tamarindo, Hacienda Pinilla, Playa Grande, Playa Flamingo, Potrero and Las Catalinas, as well as Nosara, Playa Avellanas and Sámara.
Equally important, the much larger space we have in our main gallery building allows us to show even more diverse original artwork by a wider range of Costa Rican artists.
Resident Artist
Francisco Castro Lostalo
Besides being co-owner of Visions Art Center, Francisco is a prolific painter, sculptor and mixed media artist, and the principal artist in our gallery.
Like French painter Henri Matisse, Francisco believes that an artist should never be a prisoner of a single style. Embracing this philosophy, he works in a wide range of subjects and styles, from colorful paintings in acrylic, acrylic and resin, watercolor and mixed media, to sculptures in stone, wood, ceramic, fiberglass and bronze. His paintings are typically filled with bold color, texture and movement, and his underwater images of whales and other sea life are especially striking.
Francisco has a long list of artistic credits. He has organized many art events, including Costa Rica's first two international monumental stone sculpture symposiums, held in 2006 and 2013, and in 2009 he was a founding organizer of Costa Rica's well-known art fair EmbrujArte. Born and raised in Costa Rica, Francisco is also a Canadian citizen, having lived in Toronto, Canada for several years before returning permanently to Costa Rica in 2020. In 2018, he represented Canada in the World Youth Forum's sculpture symposium "Reviving Humanity" in Egypt. His public sculptures can be found in Egypt, Chile and Costa Rica, and many of his artworks are held in private collections in Costa Rica, Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, Argentina, Britain, France, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. The diversity of his work can be seen on this site, in our gallery in Santa Ana de Belén, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, and on his personal website castrolostalo.com.
Where to Find Us
We're on Route 155, the main road leading from Belén towards Huacas, Tamarindo and Flamingo, only 5 minutes west of Route 21, where Route 155 begins.
If you're coming east from those beach areas, we're 500 meters east of the Plaza Deportes (sports field) in Santa Ana de Belén. You'll pass that sports field just after Route 155 takes a sharp right turn and continues towards Belén and Route 21.
Watch for our large roadside "Art Gallery" sign!
Our address translates to English as:
Costa Rica, Central America,
Guanacaste Province,
Santa Ana, Belén, Carrillo,
500 meters east of the sports field.