Mercedes Cachago is an established artist from Ecuador - a stellar representative of the style NAIFF, “magical” surrealism and “magical” realism. She is currently residing in Norway. Recently she has held exhibitions in Norway, Sweden and Cuba and plan to exhibit in several more European countries in the years to come.

Mercedes developed herself as an artist working with the great Gonzalo Endara Crown, who she will always recognize as her “Maestro”. However, for the rest of us it is obvious that Mercedes stands on her own two feet- she has added elements that are immediately appreciated. Her work has a lot of “life” and it “grows” in the eye of the beholder. The “Endarista” experience obviously has served her well, above all with the use of the materials and in learning superior technique, but Mercedes goes her own way, always interested in improving her work, always searching for the as yet unknown.

Mercedes says that she tries to paint the sound of nature. She gives her own harmony to what she experiences, especially emphasizing the play of light, shadow and color.

Many of Mercedes’ paintings have been utilized as gift to visiting heads of state from the Ecuadorian Governments. Her paintings have admirers in many countries.

The well-known painter and sculpurist Guillermo Silva visited Mercedes Cachago in Norway while he was exhibiting in Norway in May, 2002, Silva became so fascinated that he wrote "Never before have paintings of an other artist caused me insomnia, but the night after I had experienced and felt the effect of these fabulous mountains of the Andes, I returned to my roots, the original, the truthful, to the taste of corn that Mother Earth gives us with love, purity, without selfishness, without pollutants used by greedy organizations that solely look for profit, and someday may have to eat this profit, instead of lettuce and bread. Mercedes Cachago, let nothing pollute the pure and real that you give your mountains, your reality and your dreams. Let love and honesty continue to affect your paintings, a light so necessary and dear through this time of darkness."