Lola Soto Vicario

I am a visual artist born and based in Valencia (Spain). I started showing art skills in my early childhood, and later my trips and hikes into the unspoiled nature kept myself motivated to create my own identifiable and affecting landscapes out of the experiences that really touched me.

Gazing at the alluring and intelligent power of Nature, far-reaching vistas and blustery skies plays a vital role in my art. Probably my eye also tends to seek the most ordinary yet loved spots I know well. The act of painting itself is for me like groping in the mist or surveying unknown landscapes, it comes up when I let myself go and manage to involve the deepest part of me into the creative process, even without noticing. At this very moment it is when I disappear into my work, something I really love.

Throughout the years I have produced a great number of sketch books, both in the studio and while drawing on local nature spots, often places with depth and distance, mixing oil colours, ink, watercolours, charcoal and graphite. All these sketches have become a sort of training in meditation, self-questioning and contemplation of the landscapes I really love. Stark contrasts, moody reveries and gloomy atmospheres usually catch my eye. It is then...

After gaining my academic degree in Fine Arts from the Facultad de Bellas Artes de San Carlos (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia) in 1994, I received my PhD in 2001.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Spain)

1994 Galería En-Mont-Art. Valencia
1997 Sala Micalet 1. City Council of Valencia
1999 Galería Nave Diez Taller de Arte. Valencia
2000 Galería Balboa 13 Madrid
2000 Espacio de Arte Manzanares.Ciudad Real. (Caja Madrid)
2001 Galería Nave Diez Taller de Arte. Valencia
2001 Instituto de Estudios Bercianos. City Council of Ponferrada. León
2002 Fundación CEU Cardenal Herrera. Valencia
2003 Sala de Exposiciones Ibercaja. Valencia
2004 Galería Altamira. Gijón
2004 Espacio de Arte Blasco de Garay. Madrid. (Caja Madrid)
2005 Galería El Cantil. Santander
2006 Galería Balboa 13 Madrid
2008 Personal show in the studio. Valencia
2017 Casa de la Senyoria de Olocau. Valencia



GROUP EXHIBITIONS SINCE 1994

* Museo de la Ciudad. Madrid. Sponsorship: Caja de Madrid
* Fundación Díaz Caneja. Palencia
* Espai Vol ART. Fundación Vila Casas. Barcelona
* Galería Nave Diez Taller de Arte. Valencia
* II Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Marbella
* Cube Gallery. Ottawa
* Galería Jovenart. Madrid
* Galería Altamira. Gijón
* Galería Alameda. Vigo
* Museo de la Ciudad. Valencia. City Council of Valencia
* Galería Amaga. Avilés
* Mo'Bo Art Gallery. Valencia
* Galería La Nave del Arte. San Seb...