"Ophelia" Painting

Carlos Ferg (1977) is a Spanish artist who has lived for ten years in Manchester (United Kingdom),
where he established his studio and from where he began his artistic career. Currently he has moved
his studio to Valencia, Spain.
After residing in various cities in Spain for part of his childhood and adolescence, he graduated in Art
History (Spain, 2001). Later, he moved to Madrid, without pursuing an artistic career, and although
he always liked drawing, he wanted to take painting classes, a step beyond the simple application of
drawing on paper. While working in different fields away from the creative environment, he
maintained the habit of visiting museums, something that maintained his connection with the
artistic environment.
After ten years living in Madrid, and due to personal circumstances, he began a process of learning
pictorial techniques on his own, researching and developing his own style, first through the medium
considered essential throughout history, the oil technique. During this stage he became very
interested in the work of Velázquez and, fundamentally, in Sorolla's study of volume and light.
At that time, he had the opportunity to move to the United Kingdom and the opportunity to explore
and learn new mixed media such as pastel, acrylic, watercolor, etc., in addition to receiving new
artistic and pictorial influences especially from British artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. It is in 2015, when he decides to develop a more solid project that will lead him to
configure his own work, promoting his personal style in terms of technique and content.
He is currently developing a figurative project, based on an update of the works of Symbolism, a
movement that had its greatest impact at the end of the 19th century and that was intrinsically
linked to the literary movement developed in Paris, as its epicenter and that was spreading. to the
rest of Europe and influencing the other arts in a notorious way. Hence, writers such as Baudelaire,
Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Poe, etc. stand out, who formed the nucleus of the group that would
become known as The Damned poets.