Visions Art Center
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.
After operating for five years in Liberia, our gallery has moved and re-opened in a much more expansive space in Santa Ana de Belén, Guanacaste. With this move, Visions Gallery has become 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 many clients in and near the beach communities of Tamarindo, Hacienda Pinilla, Playa Grande, Playa Flamingo, Potrero, Las Catalinas, as well as Nosara, Playa Avellanas and Sámara, among others.
More importantly, our much larger space in our main gallery building allows us to represent a wider range of local Costa Rican artists than previously, and to show even more diverse original artwork,
Best of all, using additional facilities on the same property, we will gradually be able to realize our vision of making Visions Art Center an "oasis of art" in the region, a true arts center where residents and tourists can experience events such as art fairs, artists' demonstrations and an arts market.
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 typically 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, held in 2006 and 2013, and 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.
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 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 towards Huacas, Tamarindo and Flamingo, and we're only 5 minutes west of Route 21 in Belén, where Route 155 begins.
If you're coming from the beaches, we're 500 meters east of the Plaza de Fútbol (soccer field) in Santa Ana de Belén. You'll pass that football field just after Route 155 takes a sharp turn to the right.
Watch for our large roadside "Art Gallery" sign!
Our address translates to English as:
Costa Rica, Central America,
Carrillo, Guanacaste,
Santa Ana de Belén,
500 meters east of the football field.