When Marina Núñez del Prado saw Sanchez's pieces in the exhibition she encouraged Sanchez to continue and told Sanchez that if his pieces were exhibited in Europe they would be well received.""Mudo de la emoción, apenas atiné a balbucear unas palabras cuando ella acercándose me dijo en voz alta: 'Felicitaciones, esta exposición en París hoy, sería un boom"'," says Sanchez. ""Fue un momento glorioso. ¡Sí que fastidié a los pintores! Y fue el espaldarazo que necesitaba para consolidar un estilo basado en una estética andina"."Sanchez is best known as a muralist and has completed five major mural paintings - three in Peru and two in Germany. Sanchez painted murals in the Catholic churches in Chongos Altos in 1973, in Morococha in 1982, and in the Convento de Ocopa in 1993. Marina Núñez del Prado's prescience of Sanchez's acceptance in Europe came to fruition when Sanchez traveled to Germany in 1983 to paint a mural in the church of the Holy Spirit in Aachen and later completed another mural in Germany in the church of Litzelstetten by the banks of Lake Constance. Sanchez has provided his work for commercial work as when he provided the cover for ""Plantas en la Cultura Andina"" published in Huancayo in 2000. Sánchez recently won the BBCMundo.com blogs contest. The winning work is called "Todavía No Pinto Canas", which won in the category for elderly people. "Todavía No Pinto Canas" won over 84 different works presented by other artists. Sanchez has served as an inspiration for younger Peruvian artists like Daniel Pickens of Huancayo. Sanchez paints everyday life, customs, and popular myths from Andean life in Peru. Sanchez primarily paints rural themes. Lima, the capital of Peru, has little attraction for Sanchez. Critics of Sanchez's work like Manuel Baquerizo say that Sanchez strives to create a total composition using popular art forms, where the art is characterized by the minimalist usage and perspective of carved gourds (mates burilados), amalgamating both local and universal values with Sanchez's conception of the native and western worlds.