Raúl Lara

Raúl Lara Naranjo (Morón de la Frontera, Seville, Spain, (1980). Like every child, Raúl showed determination in his first scribbles and soon his parents observed how he spent hours in front of hundreds of papers that he painted and painted, doing everything kind of drawings.
That motivated him to be enrolled in painting classes at an academy at the age of 9 so that he could learn about the fundamentals of pictorial art. Thanks to these classes, he began in the oil technique and began to make his first paintings for family and friends, always in small formats. From that moment his training has been self-taught, guided by inspiration, by the hours and hours in front of countless canvases, by the readings he has done, by videos, online information ... Almost all his knowledge about painting has been the result of his interest, his passion, his curiosity and desire to learn, and above all, his innate quality for painting. Now in his maturity, not only vital but pictorial, he manages to capture in his painting all that learning, which continues to develop day by day,
In the beginning, his painting was always classic and realistic: seascapes, still lifes, Andalusian patios ... Little by little, always self-taught and inspired by contem...

Although I was trained briefly in painting as an adolescent at an academy in Spain, I´m primarily a self-taught artist.I like exploring diferents techniques and mediums.

2021 Body Language Eclectic Gallery 16 Newman Street, W1T 1PB Fitzrovia, London
2021 Faces of Feminity Eclectic Gallery 16 Newman Street, W1T 1PB Fitzrovia, London
2020 Affordable Art Fair Battersea represented by Eclectic Gallery London (UK)
2020 Online Affordable Art Fair represented by Eclectic Gallery London (UK)
2020 The Real You Eclectic Gallery 16 Newman Street, W1T 1PB Fitzrovia, London
2020 Range of Arts Gallery 7 Rue des Capucins, Honfleur, (France)
2019 START Art fair Saatchi Gallery London (United Kingdom)
2019 Galerie Montmartre 11, Place Du Tertre Paris (France)
2019 Versatile Art Lisbon (Portugal)
2017 Gallery Different, 14 Percy Street London (UK)
2016 VEDO Corporate Art Exhibition London (United Kingdom)
2015 Selected artist for International Art Fair Barcelona Artbaho 2015 (Spain)
2014 Selected artist for International Art Fair Roma Romart 2015 (Italy)
2013 Actua Seville Plaza de la Encarnación s / n Seville (Spain)
2013 Elements of Abstractition Agora Gallery 530 West 25th Street New York, NY (United States)
2012 Portals of Perception Agora Gallery 530 West 25th Street New York, NY (United States)