M.Teresa Bello I Coron, my mum, was born in the middle of the Spanish Civil War, daughter of a soldier and a dressmaker. Both her parents and she have known tough years during and after the war due to their socioeconomic situation as well as all my family.

My mum grew up in a family with poor means of support, under the protection of her grandmother and aunts LEONOR and TERESINA while her own mother travelled through Catalonia in seek of food she exchanged when arriving for other necessary things at that time.

As she grew fast developed she introduced herself in the show business, thinking it could open her some doors to pull through her family.

In her teens, she began working as a dancer and later she became first vedette in a revue company along with TRUDI BORA among others. She also shared posters with ANTONIO MACHIN, MARY SANTPERE and PACO MARTINEZ SORIA with who she made her debut in theatre.

Her first play was “FOUNTAINS OF LOVE” in which she played a servant. A little part but due to her physical and natural attractiveness, she was crucial to the play.

After this artistic step, which goal was only to make her independent and help her build her own business, she became a hairdresser and opened her own beauty salon in the Barcelona posh neighbourhood.

After many efforts and sacrifices she managed to stabilize. When she split up with my biological father, who was only a partner, she found the love of her life, ANTONIO MARTIN, an architect. Together, with their want of prosperity, they gave me the support they thought I deserved in those difficult times, as long as the circumstances permitted them.

My mother always found the support she needed with her first cousin PILAR and her aunt LEONOR during her son's teen years, as well as with her mother MARIA, who despite living in Venezuela, constantly watched over her daughter's health after the split with Amilcar's father.

Actually, it always was both Antonio Martin and M.Teresa Bello mother's family, Pilar and her parents Juan and Leonor, who have supported her unconditionally in the toughest moments, looking after Amilcar as if he was one of their own sons.

It was with his uncle JUAN TORMO i CALLIS that Amilcar learnt the values of the human being as a self-learner artist, as he used to see him painting in his room every morning and also in his conversations about life and literature and its importance while walking through the Ciutadela Park. There, he also learnt to respect Nature and animals while visiting in some occasions the zoo (located in that park), he was explained the very peculiar characteristics of some animals, especially of dolphins, for which both Juan and Amilcar felt a true passion.

When Amilcar grew up and began studying, M.Teresa Bello and Antonio Martin became a couple without living together, and despite the adverse circumstances of health troubles endured by M.Teresa, Antonio supported her unconditionally as well as Pilar Tormo.

The idea that Amilcar began to interest himself to the world of magic at the early age of 9 did not enchant her mother and Antonio, as they knew by own experience that it is a difficult sector in which is hard to make one's way successfully.

On the other hand, my mum's family never wanted to coarse their adoptive son's will and made M.Teresa conscious that every person chooses their own destiny regardless of their parents' wishes and that the more obstacles they put on their sons' way the more they become rebellious, creating a conflictive relationship between them. They were 75-76.

Amilcar kept studying but the bad results due to his family environment led him to stop studying after high school.

Antonio and M.Teresa's couple began to grow apart due to the disagreements and contrary opinions from Antonio as regards magic and Amilcar. M.Teresa tended not to coarse her son's individual freedom and supported him when necessary unconditionally.

She was a successful estate agent for more than 12 years and supported the artistic career of her son who lived on magic by then. Her son was her passion, the person she threw herself into. Maybe he reminded her of when she was young and an artist, that she had to pull through by herself, only to renounce stardom and devote herself to another, maybe not wished for, occupation. She did not want to see the person she loved the most, her son, fail.

In 1992, M .Teresa Bello's mother died in Barcelona, as she had been near her daughter for several years, and this meant a heavy psychological blow both for her and Amilcar.

In 1996, M .Teresa died in her summer home of a diabetes complication, this being the finishing psychological end for both Antonio and Amilcar, but also for the rest of the family and people who knew her.

M.Teresa Bello I Coron has always been a devoted woman, a person to who Amilcar will be infinitely indebted to, both for her human value and her devoted struggle to preserve the individual freedom of everyone she knew, always respectful and sometimes at a socioeconomic disadvantage.

If I have to thank my family in its whole is for the respect they have showed towards my own criteria and individual freedom, indispensable condition to the development of the artist lying in me, artist developing always more.

Currently and after the recent death of this great aunt Leonor, Pilar's mother, with whom I shared intellectual restlessness, dreams and passions as art, literature, I'm living with CARMEN, who is part of my life as if all of it was a magic trick, impossible and wonderful. Together we share those interests for Pilar's art, Carmen's knowledge, kindness and sensibility, as well as my own hopes.

To all of them, sincere thanks.