Visions Art Center
About Us
Visions Gallery is moving and growing!
After 5 years in Liberia, we (owners Francisco Castro Lostalo and Tony Magee) are getting ready to move our gallery to the small community of Santa Ana de Belén, in the heart of Guanacaste, a more convenient location for our clients traveling to and from the beach communities of Tamarindo, Grande, Flamingo, Potrero and Las Catalinas, Sámara and Nosara, among others.
We're planning to move during August and September 2025 and to open in October in our new location on the site of the well-known former restaurant El-KPi, 3 km. west of Route 21 in Belén, along Route 155 leading to Huacas, Tamarindo and Flamingo.
The expansive space there will let us display an even wider range of original Costa Rican paintings and sculptures and represent a larger group of artists, making ours the largest gallery of original art in the region and one of the largest in all of Costa Rica.
With ongoing exhibits in the gallery, an open air arts market and special events such as an art fair, we plan to make Visions Art Center an "oasis of art" and popular art destination for residents and tourists alike.
Resident Artist
Francisco Castro Lostalo
Like French painter Henri Matisse, Francisco believes that an artist should never be a prisoner of a single style. 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 acrylic and resin paintings are frequently filled with bold color, texture and movement, and his underwater images of whales and other sea life are striking.
Francisco has a long list of artistic credits. He organized Costa Rica's first two international monumental stone sculpture symposiums and represented Canada in the World Youth Forum's 2018 sculpture symposium "Reviving Humanity" in Egypt. His public sculptures can be found in Egypt, Chile and Costa Rica, and his art is held in private collections in Costa Rica, Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, Argentina, Britain, France, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland.
Born and raised in Costa Rica, Francisco is also a Canadian citizen. The diversity of his work can be seen on this site, in our gallery in Liberia, Costa Rica and on his personal website castrolostalo.com.
Our Current Location
We're just 5 minutes east of Liberia International Airport on Route 21, the main road between Guanacaste's beaches and downtown Liberia.
Our “official" address translates to English as Barrio Santa Ana, 300 meters east of the main offices of the Transit Police, in front of La Liga De La Caña, Liberia, Costa Rica, Central America.