He was born in the city of Aguilares, in the department of San Salvador. He possesses a natural talent and a tenacious discipline for drawing that eventually got him into the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. From an early age, he began to explore colors and painting techniques, making paint out of beets and from strawberry, pineapple, and grape fresquitop. He made still lifes without having received any education in drawing and took as models native fruits such as pineapple, oranges, and bananas. Later in school, he is known as the boy who knew how to draw and collaborated in all the classrooms, making drawings for the teachers. As he enters adolescence, Pehdro spends most of his time at his local cultural center, where he meets Horacio Quintanilla who provides him with painting materials and introduces him to techniques for his artistic development. It is through Horacio that Raúl Elas Reyes, knowing Pehdro's admiration for his work, sends him J.M.'s Parramon’s book, This is how oil painting is done, which results in motivating the young painter even more. Salvador Escobar, student painter of Valero Lecha, also nurtures our artist.

 

In the 20th century, the streets of Aguilares turned deadly with death squads sowing fear and desolation–north of Aguilares, the priest Rutilio Grande and two others who accompanied him were murdered. Then, Pehdro’s friends are targeted, leading him to emigrate along with thousands of Salvadorans to the north. Once assimilated to his new land, he wins a scholarship to study at the prestigious Pasadena Arts Center and later at the Otis Parson Institute of the Arts where he earned his Bachelor's Degree in Art. Restless and a visionary, together with his colleagues, he co-founded the Group of Salvadoran Artists (GAS), El G-3 (group made up of three artists) and the Central American Cultural Center among others.

 

During the early '90s, Pehdro's powerful desire to be expressive in a unique way and to communicate his feelings became the ultimate goal in his spiritual evolution. Touched by the processes they went through to achieve their own fulfilling results, "I see my work as progressive research which will never end. Each piece is an attempt to experiment with something else such as color play, line orientations and expression of forms.
"It is the inner part of my life that allows me to express my creative self without compromise. It is all me that comes out with feelings that change as I grow and keep developing. At times I felt this a torturous process, but the pain kept me going and
the end results are gratifying," says Pehdro.
His work is collected throughout the Los Angeles Area, New York, Texas, Las Vegas, Chile, Japan, Holland, Sweden, and Russia. He has exhibited throughout California, including shows at La Paz B.C., Mexico and El Salvador.