I am a self-taught visual artist, born and raised in the multicultural city of Madrid, in Spain, in 1976. Throughout my life I have felt a deep connection with artistic creation, being always in research of ways to express the human condition through drawing and painting. Inspired and truly in love of the Asian beauty that I have discovered by travelling around Japan and China.
My work focuses on the exploration of human suffering in a hyper-connected digital modern world but, paradoxically, pushes us to live increasingly isolated and in perpetual search for connections. The need for love, loneliness and anxiety tipically generated by this caothic society, are the main codes of my narrative and my inspirational emotions from my own vital experience. I am interested in inviting to reflection on the voracity of our current society and how it has commodified human relations in many contexts, and the contradictions which it to subject in our existence.
I work in very detailed portraits of evocative female images which dialogues with the viewer. My characters have neutral expressions but an intense and penetrating gaze as a way to connect with the observer. The intention is to reveal an internal storm and its inner phycology through our own gaze. I think my portraits allows the viewer to identify with the image of other human being and its emotions, transcending gender barriers, time or place. It is a beautiful way to reminder us that we are all the same.
To create my paintings, I mix digital mediums with analog tools as a way to represent the dichotomy between the traditional and modern worlds. I use digital graphite to create grayscale and very detailed portraits, and then I translate it to the painted plane by vivid colorful acrylic, also adding three-dimensional elements such as small imitation jewelry. Throguh this process the avatar becomes real into the natural world, transcending from the digital plane, reborn, liberated and full of life.
Although I happily embrace new technologies, I still believe in the slow, meditative creative process that connects with the spirit of the artist as a means to connect with the soul of others.