Biography

After completing my education in Burgos, Spain, I decided to continue my English language learning in London, England. Some thirty-five years later I returned to my native Spain to continue my, by now professional, art career.

After arriving in England, in 1971, from my native Spain, I spent my first years learning the language, running my own business and bringing up a family. Following a serious road traffic accident I took up painting, initially as a form of therapy. It was not long, however, before the act of creating new shapes and forms onto a blank space excited me and my typical exuberance and enthusiasm, for anything that interests me, took over and art became a passion.

In 1998 I joined The Hammersmith and West London College, Department of Art, continuing in 1999 at the University of Surrey, Roehampton, graduating in 2002 with honours, in Public Art. I studied at the University of Arts, College of Printing and communication, in London, where I obtained the BTEC Certificate of Printmakers.

It was while I was studying at the University of Surrey, Roehampton that I regained my interest in the artist Goya, to me the first expressionist master and my admiration for such a great artist grew with my studies. His etchings, “Los Caprichos” and “Los Desastres de la Guerra” inspired me to further my knowledge of the mechanics and chemistry of the various printmaking techniques.

It is the boldness of Goya’s brush strokes and the vibrancy of the colours as used by Kandinsky that have influenced my work the most, particularly in the abstract expressionist style that I use to portray the natural elements in my paintings. I am presently working on a nature series relating to butterfly metamorphosis and how other natural forms, flora and fauna, could metamorphose within evolutionary terms.

I have had successful solo exhibitions in numerous galleries in London, Madrid and Barcelona. Whilst living in London I was a visiting tutor at Heatherlys College of Fine Art, Chelsea and an instructional therapeutic lecturer for Dr. Frances Clarke at the Headway centre in Harrow.

While preparing for my forthcoming exhibitions I currently hold workshops in my private studio in Beniganim for local and international students.