Soledad Fernandez

1949, Madrid.
Soledad Fernandez is a spanish realistic painter.
She has realised individual and collective exhibitions from the eighties to the present time, in national and foreign galleries of art, as well as in international events of art and museums.

This Madrilenian painter is considered by critics one of the best realistic painters at present, being the human body one of her favourite themes especially woman's nude wrapped in paper and cloth which gives her work some magic and mistery.

She was born in Madrid. In 1949 she moved to Collado Villalba, Madrid, where she has lived since then. In 1960 and for a period of seven years she studied at Jos Gutirrez Valle's atelier of the Sevillian School. She is, so that, an atelier painter. Later on she continued her painting studies at the Circle of Fine Arts in Madrid where she attended several courses of modern art. In the 80's she visited and studied art in Paris, London, Rome and Venice, going deeply into the techniques already learnt in Madrid. After several exhibitions of lesser importance, in 1987 her works were exhibited at the Sammer Gallery in London and subsequently in Madrid, El Escorial, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Zaragoza, etc. She was also present at national and international Art Fairs in Washington, Chicago, Santander (Spain), Valencia (Spain), Miami, etc.
In 1987 she was awarded the First Prize for Foreign Painting (ex aequo) at the XXIX International Contest "Grolla d'Oro de Treviso", Venice and in 1989 she obtained the First Prize at the VI Contest of the Gallery Durn Painting Prize. Some of her works are exhibited at the following museums: Muse Quentovic (Le Touquet, France), National Museum of Fine Arts (La Valletta, Malta), Cathedral Museum (M...