BASIC INFORMATION

Name: Frans “Pacho” Weeber, 1944
Place of birth: Curaçao
Based in: The Netherlands
Discipline: Portrait painting

BIOGRAPHY
Frans “Pacho” Weeber is a Curaçaoan portrait painter known for creating oil paintings on discarded oil-drum lids. Pacho recycles round oil barrel lids and uses them as portrait canvases! After living in the Netherlands, he returned permanently to Curaçao in 1993 and worked in cultural centers and at Kadushi Cliff Resort in Westpunt, organizing cultural activities and supporting the local community. Largely self-taught, he draws inspiration from Curaçaoan faces, landscapes, and the island’s oil-refining heritage, transforming industrial waste into distinctive recycled art.
He returned back to the Netherlands with his two daughters

EDUCATION

Pacho studied at a Social Academy, completed professional training in hospitality, and took painting courses. His artistic practice is primarily self-taught

EXHIBITIONS

In 1996 he had is first solo exhibition at Kas di Alma Blou