Maria15 Painting

I am a painter born in Valencia, Spain, 1969. There are some common threads that coincide in the different stages of my pictorial career. One of them is the search for beauty through the behavior of the material itself, without the need to resort to figuration to tell anything, since art should make sense in itself, just like the beauty of any natural phenomenon that It is composed of light, color, matter and form. The other point in common is the use of paper, before as a collage and now as a support. My first pictorial steps were based on material experimentation, discovering new materials and mixing them so that they had an aesthetic sense was an exciting adventure. I played with the large wooden formats, gluing papers, adding colour, making transfers and using different coatings for industrial use that were integrated into the supports and always looking for the beauty that happens when the materials interact. As my first painting teacher would say, the end justifies the means. I did the thesis for research proficiency that dealt with this topic and which was entitled "the magic of living matter", directed by Dr. Carmen Grau (Professor of the Faculty of Fine Arts, but above all a great painter and great woman) and Thanks to this, I had the opportunity to meet Francisco Farreras, a great artist whom I admired and whose artistic career was a central part of my research. During this time I had many exhibitions in different countries, many of them the result of having been selected in large competitions. I exhibited at the National Museum of Anthropology thanks to the Complutense contests and won the prize from the San Carlos Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Valencia. It was also the time of study trips, I studied in Brussels thanks to Erasmus for a year at the prestigious La Cambre art school and in Mexico at the San Carlos master's degree, whose postgraduate building was on Moneda street, very close to the Zócalo, surrounded by markets, history and life. A Victory of Samothrace welcomed you to this great space for creation, collaboration and learning. It was an expansive time. Then came motherhood and its reconciliation with art. The media changed, the resources too, and perhaps in a search for a more intimate expression, parallel to what was happening in my life, I found the solution by further simplifying the pictorial concept from the technique, and this was thanks to the rediscovery of watercolor: water, color.