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and I can’t wait to start the next painting. It is exciting to challenge My concept of painting is the journey of struggle and determination for
oneself with each work, always searching within, this opens new perfection in every aspect of my work, from design and composition
doors, new horizons, it never ends. It is a passion I feel and it is this to colour and form. A journey that never ends. Each style fits into a
emotion that I try to portray in all my works. plan, like a road map to the future and sometimes the direction is not
always forward, but like a continuous ebb and flow of juices which
COULD YOU PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF AND TELL US HOW YOU moves one, sometimes forwards and sometimes backwards but
STARTED IN THE ARTS? AND YOUR FIRST EXPERIENCE IN ART MAKING? always towards a positive direction.
I am a free spirited adventurer who approaches my art in the same
way, every painting is an experiment and an adventure. As such, I WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR INSPIRATION FROM?
have no particular style. I work with a style until I develop it as far as My inspiration is within. I only have to tap into it. As Picasso said 10
I can go, then I change and move on to another idea always keeping percent inspiration and 90% perspiration. I paint 8 hours a day just
my hand in and never losing any of the positive styles that I have had, about every day of the week except when travelling from A to B when
going back sometimes years later, is an opportunity to take the style working with international galleries and international exhibitions.
further to finality.
I sketched, as a child, with my Mother, who was also a painter. When WHAT EMOTIONS DO YOU HOPE THE VIEWER’S EXPERIENCE WHEN
we returned to the Basque Country, Northern Spain, my Father’s LOOKING AT YOUR ART?
birthplace, for the summer vacations, I used to work alongside her on Pleasure; some works indulge the viewer whereby he/she is
location. transported to another world, transmitting excitement and inner
pleasure, evoking curiosity and uncertainty, allowing your mind to
HOW DO YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF AND YOUR ARTWORK? drift taking one to different levels of your own imagination. Each style
Eclectic and spontaneous when working with abstracts, the idea evokes a different reaction and a different emotion.
grows, sometimes changes, sometimes free flowing, it is a continual
movement from beginning to end. WHEN DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOUR ARTWORK IS FINISHED?
It is very tricky, you can always do a little more, it is very easy to
My Philosophy, the next painting will be the best. It has been an overwork a piece. It depends on the style, realism is never finished,
ongoing struggle for perfection, being able to break through mental and you can always go back. With impressionism and abstracts there
and physical barriers, pushing the envelope to realizing and developing is a point when composition and the balance of colour come together
that vision until ultimately a style is born. Then taking that style and and at that moment you have to stop.
working it until it cannot be developed further and only then moving
on to adapt this to new ideas, taking you on a journey of versatility and WHAT HAS BEEN THE MOST EXCITING MOMENT IN YOUR ART
determination to the next painting. I am always looking to improve on CAREER SO FAR?
each work so as to fine tune my coordination between body, mind I think the most exciting moment was creating single handedly the
and spirit with emphasis on reaching the point whereby my hands largest mural in the world. The achievement of a mammoth project
almost are moving without consciously guiding them. Speed is an such as murals is always a challenge and once completed you do
integral part of the process as it forces one to not dwell on exactitude reach a level of euphoria. The most recent mural United in our History,
rather it forces a continuous flow of inspiration and passion. focusing on the Heiltsuk Nation of 9,000 years (Bella, Bella) Canada,
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