Mountaineer and avid explorer of life.
Alfonso Zetina was born in 1987, in the wild and colorful Texmelucan. The years of his early childhood branded with curiosity his passion for drawing and painting; the artistic influence, instruction and encouragement of his family nurtured his journey through life in great measure. Knowing the world from a young age, he graduated on International Business at Tecnológico de Monterrey in México and studied alternative business degrees in the Baltic region.
His traveling trajectory, however, extends beyond the professional path and makes it possible to demonstrate the intrinsic link between art and the constant wandering around the world. His life and travels through the distant Australian regions, the exotic territory of Singapore, the seductive Nordic snow lands, and the formidable forests in North America, forged the passion that constantly evolves his perspective.
At the age of twelve, he had already won first prizes in artistic competitions in local schools. However, during his adolescence and early youth, he experienced a breach of emotional absenteeism that suppressed the artistic flow in his life. At the age of twenty-five, he began to collaborate with the creative company Alteri (Puebla, México), in which he already demonstrated some of his most distinctive artistic features and his preference for all colors found in nature. For three years, he was able to develop his technique of acrylic painting on ceramic crafts, but, it was not until the year 2017 when he, after several months of having established Comercializadora VOLGA (now ZETINA Comercializadora), a small wholesale & retail business in Puebla (his home estate), began to develop the technique of acrylic over canvas, which until 2023, characterized him as the expeditionary acrylic painter who projects his passion for the mountains, the forest, wilderness in its purest context and the distant corners of the Earth.
At the age of thirty, after one of the biggest setbacks in his life, Alfonso decided to distance himself from his common life in that bustling colonial city of Puebla to embark on an enlightening journey to the Wenatchee National Park in Washington; in the pursuit and reconquest of his “first love”, which is defined as the "pure inspiration and the simplicity of amazement". Since childhood, the evolution of his drawing and painting has been shaped by climbing silver mountains, hiking long distances, or traveling to the distant corners of the globe; rebel without any cause other than his own, he resorted to artistic self-learning that has resulted in formidable collections such as "azúl, a Journey to Nostalgia", "an Interesting Study of the EYE", "Textures and Hidden Memories", "Fisherman's Fundamentals of Glory", "Contraseñas Urbanas" and now the evolution of expression in which he prints and mixes his free spirit, the sweet taste of nostalgia, the exotic flavor of the unknown and his sublime love for WILDERNESS.
By 2022, at the age of 34 and after gathering a significant amount of TikTok followers in the pandemic season, Alfonso Zetina then a.k.a. wildernessuncle returned to Mexico with the purpose of exploring the untamed southern territory of Oaxaca, accompanied by his one and only loyal Mathilde (2016 220 Bajaj motorcycle) on a noble endeavor of ASMR, oils and ink.
Now, using the name of Señor Montaña, Alfonso might be riding, tinyhiking or sketching your town, don't miss his YouTube stories!
