Cecilia Marchan

While I was putting on an exhibition, it occurred to me to place a bench in the center of the room so that the visitors could sit and contemplate the "Gardens ...".
A woman (who is now a friend) sat down. After she was sitting for a long time contemplating one of the paintings, I approached her.

"There's something that surprises me," she told me. "On the one hand I see a very balanced work, in the composition, the color, and on the other hand, something that breaks the rules, that wants to escape from that balance". I think nobody has ever described my painting so well, that it is nothing more than a reflection of my person. Balance is fundamental and necessary in my life.

At the time of painting, perhaps the most difficult part for me is the choice of motive, it can’t be just anything, it must be a visceral reaction. Once the motive has been chosen, I select what I want to reflect. The next step is a study of the composition of the painting to achieve a balance but avoid symmetry. A few lines to place the drawing (more than a few lines if it is a figure) and from this moment, begins that less balanced part of my personality, that need to break the rules and be carried away by the brush, by color, by light.

I have always...

Drawing and painting workshops at the House of Culture of San Lorenzo de El Escorial from 2002 / present. Teachers: Mercedes Moro and Leandro Antolí
2004- Peña Academy (Madrid)

The first time I painted an oil painting, I did it on a kraft paper. Too bad it reacts so badly to oil, because I love the effect of colors on that type of paper. I have always painted on canvas, but not for anything special. Lately I have the need to try something different, not only paint on wood, even natural wood, but also introduce some collage or mix several techniques in a single work.

I have tried acrylics, but they don’t convince me. I like watercolor, each work is a new challenge, a confrontation with the amount of water and pigment. I love the speed of its execution to make sketches or notes.

July 2018: "4 Pliegues", San Lorenzo de El Escorial, House of Culture San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid.
November 2017: Valdemorillo collective exhibition, Madrid, Casa de Cultura Giralt Laporta.
October 2017: individual exhibition House of Culture San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid.
September 2017: collective exhibition Centro Cultural Moralzarzal.
April 2017: exhibition "Connections" in Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, La Despernada Cultural Center.
September 2016: collective exhibition in Valdemorillo, Madrid, Casa de Cultura Giralt Laporta.
January 2016: collective exhibition in Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, La Despernada Cultural Center.
March 2015: San Lorenzo de El Escorial collective exhibition, Madrid, San Lorenzo School.
September 2014: collective exhibition in Valdemorillo, Madrid, Casa de Cultura Giralt Laporta.
August 2014: individual exhibition in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, House of Culture.
May 2014: collective exhibition El Escorial, Madrid, Casa Miñana.
September 2013: collective exhibition in Valdemorillo, Madrid, Casa de Cultura Giralt Laporta.
June 2012: Open Workshops San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Workshop of Leandro Antolí and Mª Luisa Núñez.
June 2002 -2017, collective exhibition stude...