Conchi Artero

Member of the Salon d'Automne, Paris, France.
Member of the Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors.
About my painting
I use my painting as a way to express my feelings. The themes are essentially the maritime landscapes of the Basque Coast. Very often the inspiration for my paintings comes from a peaceful walk never too far from the ocean. Contrary to the impressionists, I need to paint in the tranquility of my studio always with music. I think that both painting and music are intimately connected. Music helps me to revive and render the invisible: emotion

A tireless admirer of the sky as a source of light and a delicate, ever changing chromatic interplay with the sea, I let myself be absobed

by this infinite space and try to understand its different colours by the moment. Nature awakens in me a great respect and tremendous admiration, Those are the reasons why the sky is the main theme of my work, It provides me with a Deep sense of well being and I try to share that emotion through my paintings.

In Kant’s words: “A painting must be the echo of the state of the painter’s soul”. Alberto Pizarro, an art critic, describes my paintings as “a plastic anxiolitic”.

I was born and raised in Bilbao, Spain, where i followed studies of Political Science at the University of Deusto, getting my degree in 1985. I moved to Grenoble, France, and obrained a Diploma in Spanish at the University of letters of Grenoble in 1988 and enrolled in the Grenoble School of Fine Arts.
In 2004 I returned to my homeland, the Basque Country, where I live by the sea. I’ve been teaching painting in various association for several years , but nowadays I just Paint. I am a great admirer of english landscapers, especially, W. Turner and John Constable “The man in the clouds”, and french impressionists especially Claude Monet and Eugéne Boudin, King of the skies, for the prodigious magic of air and wáter in his paintings.

Individual Exhibitions
2023 Gallery Artea, Biarritz.
Workshop "Corinne Laborde", St-Jean-de-Luz. Francia.
Exhibition Hall "Casa Cantabria", Madrid, Spain.

2022 EXPO Distrito, Bilbao.
Cultural Center Sanchinarro, Madrid, Spain.
2021 Art Shopping, Biarritz, France.
"Tower House",cultural Center. Santurtxi, Vizcaya.Spain.
2020 Painting Work shop Corinne Laborde Saint Jean de Luz, France.
2019 Painting Workshop Corinne Laborde, Saint Jean de Luz, France.
Art Shop « Colibri Maya », Saint Jean de Luz, France
2018 Hotel Marqués de Vallejo, Logroño Spain. .
2017 Galery Fariza, Las Arenas, Getxo, Vizcaya.Spain.
2016 Exhibitions Hall « Fernando de los Rios », Santoña, Cantabria, Spain.
2015 Galery « Atelier Dorat », 22 Rue Chapon, Paris.France.
2012 Galery of arte « BelArtVita »,8 Rue Augereau, Paris, France.
2011 Galery of arte « Pili Taffernaberry », Bidart.Pay Basque.France
2010 Painting work shop « Arte », Las Arenas, Pay Basque.
Mairie d’Ahetze.Pay Basque, France.
2009 Exhibitions Hall “Victor de los Rios”, Cantabrie, Spain..
Galery “Acuarela”, Santander, Cantabrie, Spain.
2007 Exhibition hall “Euskal Etxea”, Madrid , Spain..
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