Inaki Arbulo

Painting for me is an act of reflection. It means starting a trip inside, a return to an original mythological silence. It is to enter a noisy silence, contemplative emptiness full of sense.

My years of artistic preparation studying traditional painting in Japan (Sumi-e), made me rediscover my environment with new eyes. The combination of my solid artistic formation in the University of Seville in Spain and my research studies in the University of Tokio showed me a particular suggestive language through which I try to build an emotional bridge with an intuitive perception of the infinity.

In my works there is a moment of detained contemplation, an effort to make the ephemeral permanent, to see the immobile and the immutable through the oasis of the calm reflexive contemplation. I pretend to make people feel the presence of the impalpable, of magic, of ineffable things …

The technique I use in my paintings promotes transparency, glaze, the light coming from the inside of the painting. The quality of the colours that I use is essential. It is a mixed technique that includes acrylic paint together with oil painting with natural pigments. With a texture obtained with the use of different types of sand, I intend to look for a...

- Seville University of Fine Arts, Seville - Spain
- Tokio University of Fine Arts. Japanese Traditional
Painting – Sumi – E

- Luis de Ajuria Gallery, Vitoria, Spain
- Ambassadors Palace Fine Arts, Cádiz, Spain
- Rubens Gallery, Vitoria, Spain
- San Prudencio Gallery, Vitoria, Spain
- Florida Gallery, Vitoria, Spain
- Ambassadors Palace Fine Arts, Cádiz, Spain
- “In Perspective” Agora Gallery, New York, USA
- Spanish painting in Holland (Arnhem) "PASION" 2008
- “IXth International Exhibition France-Japan “ National
Museum
Grand Palais, Paris, France
- “Spanish Painters in Japan” Marushin Gallery,
Tokushima-Shi, Japan
- “Four Painters” Luis de Ajuria Gallery, Vitoria, Spain
- “VIII Bienal of Visual Arts” Montehermoso Palace, +
Vitoria, Spain
- “V National Contest of Plastic Arts - RON BACARDÍ -
Spain