Olga Sinclair (born 1957 in

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) is an

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and figurative painter. She participated for the first time in a collective exhibition amongst professional painters at the age of just 14. She started painting studies with her father, the painter Alfredo Sinclair and went in 1976 to the Academy of Applied Arts in

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. There she also did three years classic art drawing lessons at the Arjona Studio. Back in Panama she obtained her BA-degree in

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at Santa María La Antigua University in 1984. At the same time she took engraving lessons in Giangranddi Studio. Then she continued her studies in

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for another two years. In 1987 she married Hans Risseeuw (whom she divorced 20 years later) and they moved to

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where Olga was

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to the Panamanian Embassy. After that they went to

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where their two daughters Natasha and Suzanna were born. Since 1994 Olga and her family reside again in Panama. Olga is currently Panama's Cultural Ambassador.

World record

On January 18, 2014, in

, Sinclair organized 5,084 children to paint simultaneously for three minutes to break the world record. The piece depicted a set of Canal locks as the event commemorated 100 years of the

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