[3] He studied high school for two years at the Master Cultural Cabañas Bribiesca, then received his bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Guadalajara.
[3] Parra Echauri has had a career of over 35 years, founding his own business in 1985 specifically to create colonial era style artwork, as well as frames, tables, benches and cabinets.
[5] In 2007, to mark the fifteenth anniversary of diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Vatican, he was commissioned to create a nativity scene and other Christmas decorations.
Parra Echauri is a self-taught painter, sculptor, designer, altarpiece and furniture maker and is credited with reviving interest in Mexican colonial art.
[2][4] He prefers commissions for religious art in colonial style, valuing their realism and drama, with lifelike veins and skin textures, poses in motion and faces with feeling.
[1][3] He mixes paint to order, cures wood for carving, (preferring Montezuma Cypress (Taxodium mucronatum), Mexican white pine (Pinus ayacahuite), walnut, cedar and orange woods) and works with materials such as dirt, egg yolks, red clay and a type of glue made from rabbit collagen.