Jordi Sarrate

ARTIST STATEMENT AND BIO

Creating art it’s my purpose of contributing to make the world a little better every day, surrounding ourselves with beauty that makes us feel good.
The nature is nutrition to my work. Especially the horizon line of the sea, the mountains, trees, wood, snow and sun. All these elements are essential for me and they are life itself, I believe in sustainability as a way of life and I also apply it to my work as much as it’s possible.
But the external beauty of nature is visible to everyone, I’m not interested to represent reality with painting. Now I’m interested on inner sight and I’m focus to express the beauty of human inner nature. Share this with the observer and establish an open dialogue with him and his emotions at the same time. This is the purpose of ‘Inner horizons’ series. On this artworks I bring light to the darkness creating spaces of light recorded in our emotional memories. I look for the light that makes visible the horizon line of our inner emotional landscapes. Finally, gold paint over is the expression of the sublime and spiritual experience.
The canvas for this purpose is made by order specially for me. I created it based on my experience on textile design, with organic cotton and ...

•Bachelor of Arts, Elisava Design School, Barcelona 1995
•Pictorial Techniques, Escola Massana. ART and Design Centre, Barcelona 2016
•PDG, General Management Program, IESE Business School, Barcelona 2015
•Master of Coaching and NLP, Institut Gestalt, Barcelona

Arts FAD Awards, Finalist selected.
Collective exhibition June-August, Barcelona.

Individual exhibition
Valid World Hall, Barcelona.
June 2019.
Solo exhibition with all paints and sculptures included in the Consciousness series I, II, and III.

Fine Arts award Sant Jordi. Fundació Perelló.
Diputació de Lleida, Spain.
April-September 2019.
Selected artwork as finalist to participate in collective exhibition for Fine Arts Award Sant Jordi.

ART3 GALLERY
Puigcerdà, Spain.
Eastern holidays 2019.
Two sculptures exhibited in seasonal offering.