Brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre were born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1963 & 1960 respectively. Moved to California in 1972. Presently living and working in both Ensenada, Mexico and San Diego, California. Jamex started lampworking glass in 1977, attended California State University at Long Beach under scholarship, and received BFA in Sculpture in 1983. Einar started working with glass in 1980 and attended California State University at Long Beach. Jamex attended Pilchuck School of Glass under scholarship twice and Einar as teacher’s assistant to Therman Statom. Both have owned and operated flame-worked glass figure business from 1981 to 1997. They have work in the collection of the Arizona State University Museum; the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art; The Kanazu Museum in Kanazu, Japan; The Fisher Gallery Museum at USC; Tucson Museum of Art; and The Mexican Fine Art Center Museum in Chicago. They also have work in the private collections of Cheech Marin, Elton John, Terry McMilan, Sandra Cisneros, and Quincy Troupe.