His works are inspired by the strokes and rich colors of great Colombian painters such as Alejandro Obregón, Enrique Grau, Carlos Jacanamijoy, Ana Mercedes Hoyos and Juan Antonio Roda. In the international landscape, he follows with devotion the avant-garde Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh. Avella's canvases show a lot of energy and generosity in warm tropical colors and he describes himself as an expressionist and figurative painter.
