Visions Art Center
About Us
Visions Gallery is bigger and better in our new location!
After 5 years in Liberia, we (owners Francisco Castro Lostalo and Tony Magee) have just moved our gallery to the small community of Santa Ana de Belén in the heart of Guanacaste, a more visible and more convenient location for our clients in and near the beach communities of Tamarindo, Playa Avellanas, Hacienda Pinilla, Playa Grande, Playa Flamingo, Potrero, Las Catalinas, Nosara and Sámara, among others.
We're 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. We've completed extensive renovations and moved our art from Liberia. Now we're open to the public once again, even as we're still putting finishing touches on our new gallery space.
Our new, expansive space lets us show an even wider range of original Costa Rican paintings and sculptures by a larger group of artists, making ours the largest gallery of contemporary 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 a 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.
Where to Find Us
We're less than 5 minutes west of Route 21 on Route 155, the main road leading from Belén towards Huacas, Tamarindo and Flamingo. If you're coming from the beaches, we're 500 meters east of the Plaza de Fútbol (soccer field) in Santa Ana de Belén, just after Route 155 takes a sharp turn to the right.
Our more-or-less “official" address translates to English as:
Costa Rica, Central America, Santa Ana de Belén, Carrillo, Guanacaste, 500 meters east of the football field, site of the former Restaurant El K-Pi.