Ignacio Antonio Frades

As a child I was instilled with a love for painting and for everything it can reveal. At the age of six I remember my father showing me the Black Paintings of Francisco de Goya; I was stunned by those scenes pulled from a bad dream — those witches with wrinkled faces, the poor frightened wanderers, and a few deranged souls. I remember drawing them with paper and pencil, trying to imitate what I saw. Although I don't remember that time entirely, it had a great influence on how I would want to paint years later.

As I grew up, my interest in painting faded. As a teenager I became interested in music and got a piano, on which I learned to play little made-up songs. Music interested me more and more. In time I realised that, although it was a passion I truly felt, I didn't have the musical inventiveness I thought I had.

At twenty-two, my father showed me an iPad he painted on; as a joke I drew a sun, or a peach, something like that. I was amazed, and decided to start painting from that very moment. I drew with paper and pencil and then scanned the drawings to paint them digitally, rather clumsily. In time it occurred to me to make one drawing every day to train my hand and get used to the process; I called them Meditation works. I use...