About me
I was born in Mataró, Barcelona. My professional career as a chemist and computer scientist was always far from art until 2014, when I began my training in figurative painting and drawing. Since then, I have attended various intensive courses in live figure drawing and painting, and subsequently various workshops with amazing artists such as Felipe Alonso, Joshua LaRock, Irene Cuadrado, Alex Kanevsky, Catherine Kehoe, Jennifer Pochinski, Paco Lafarga, among others.
Since then, I have worked on commissioned works and have exhibited in national and international exhibitions and competitions. My work has been acquired by private collections around the world.
In 2023, my second solo exhibition, “Visions of Portraiture,” focused on the different approaches I have used to create portraits, sometimes with a more realistic technique, other times with a more intuitive and free process. Some of these works are included in the “Visions of Portraiture” collection on this website.
Artistic statement
Although I continue to experiment with multiple techniques and themes, both in drawing and painting, my main interest is portraiture and the figure.
The human figure in my recent collections is the vehicle through which I try to capture emotions always close to introspection, vulnerability, and melancholy. They are figures in solitude, in conversation with themselves. I didn’t paint them looking for a series of works with a theme: I found the theme, which in this case is intimacy, by seeing what I was painting repeatedly, which is something that often happens to me.
The precise technique of realism serves as an anchor, but I often let color, texture or composition introduce abstract or symbolic elements that open up other interpretations and distance the work from the purely literal.
I also work on series of portraits created instinctively and creatively, in which emotion outweighs faithfulness to the likeness. Each one is achieved with a very different technique, seeking to make the subject matter and the pictorial gesture as expressive as the image itself. These are portraits that don’t depict a specific person, but rather invite the viewer to identify with an emotion or a trait of their character.
