Paz Barreiro

Since childhood, I have been obsessed with paper cut-outs and fashion magazines. My grandmother was a dressmaker who created fashionable suits and dresses from her own patterns.

I feel that my work also follows a pattern - parts coming together like a mosaic in which I try to create harmony from a multitude of scraps, eventually finding a rhythm within repetition and patterns that resemble textile designs.

My work evokes a carefree, dreamlike landscape, full of beauty, fullness of colour and textures. I take pleasure in breathing life into the idols of old movies and re-imagining them in scenes of my own making.

Paz Barreiro studied Commercial and Advertising Art at the School of Arts and Crafts in Madrid while taking drawing and painting classes at the Academia Peña. Later she graduated in Fine Arts from UCM, having specialised in painting while also taking additional classes at the Círculo de Bellas Artes. During her studies, she met her now husband which prompted the move to his home country of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Here she completed her doctorate at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of La Laguna. Today, she is part of a stable of artists at Marvick Gallery in Tenerife’s capital, Santa Cruz and Léucade Gallery in Murcia, Spain.