Rafael Ángel "Felo" García Picado (30 July 1928 – 2 December 2023) was a Costa Rican painter, architect, and footballer.

[3] There in 1948, he met Costa Rican artist Manuel de la Cruz González[4] and he began to show his interest in painting as a form of expression.

He also formed, with other students in his university, the group New Vision (Nueva Visión) with the intention of painting, exchanging ideas, critiquing each other, and presenting their work in different locations.

Subsequently, he formed the group Ocho with other artists,[4] promoting abstract art and performing various cultural activities to fill the existing gaps.

At the same time, he began to develop calligraphic abstraction and his own gestural "action painting," in which he explored the theme of the big city with its skyscrapers and crowded buildings.

One highlight of his tenure was the research project "Bamboo, an alternative to development," which intended to provide solutions to solve the problems of low-income housing.