"Light and hope", Glen Coe, Scotland Painting

This painting celebrates my love for Scotland, its muscled skies and broody glens, it’s colours with so much blue in them. I come from the South of Spain where the landscape has yellow mixed in every colour, I grew up longing for rainy days that would bring the blue into my landscape. The process to make this painting was a dialogue with the materials I sourced there, I selected stones and crashed them making mortars and painting with them. Responding to their qualities and colours, I layered, eroded, polished and built up the surface in a process that intended to echo the forces that made that landscape, and I called the result Light and Hope because at the time this process was a bright buoy.