Marta Raga

I am an abstract artist working with what lives beneath the surface.

In October 2024 a flood took my region.

The work I have made since came out of that.

After the Flood is nine large pieces that move from rupture to fire, from silence to tide, and end in bloom.

They are not paintings of water.

They are about what a person does after.

My practice explores the tension between control and release, stillness and movement.

Internal states translated into form, colour and gesture.

Each work emerges from a place where language no longer operates.

What cannot be said takes shape through layered pigment, movement and depth.

I don't want to tell anyone what to feel in front of a painting.

I want each person to find their own reflection there.

My paintings are not made to decorate.

They are made to hold presence.

Some carry silence.

Others carry the force of transformation.

All of them invite recognition of something felt, but not yet named.

Acrylic on canvas, in formats up to 195 x 130 cm.

I paint from my studio in Valencia, Spain, and I work to commission, developing the piece in conversation with the person or the space it is going into.

Independent artist, self-taught practice focused on emotional abstraction and material exploration.

2026 — Honorable Mention Award, 11th COLOR International Juried Art Competition, TERAVARNA (online exhibition)