Maria Africa Print

Pedro was born in Tenerife 1982, raised in Madrid and grew up in an art-loving family surrounded by two artists; his father, Jose Luis, and his uncle, Juan Andres. This greatly influenced his love for contemporary art, most especially pop art. His passion is to capture the soul through the expression of the eyes and to catch the personality and feeling of the moment, for he believes that each face has a story behind it. His art is emotion, its different feelings, but specially connects with you on a mysterious captivating beauty level. His paintings are expressive and exhibit a brute force with fascinating vital energy His technic is spontaneous, pure, always means to take risk with a thick stroke of color that shows the movement and catches your attention on the eyes. He makes use of mix technic on canvas, acrylic and palette knife mainly. The shades published roughly on the canvas turn out to be an extremely compelling work light and colors, colors bring you different contrast and weigh, like make up on a face, he strengths the expression Pedro has been commissioned to portrait well-known celebrities such as Eddie Izzard and other notable local personalities like Sara Leuetenegger, Adela Smajic or Raffa Plastic.