Victoria Barranco

Although I was born in Córdoba (Spain) in 1966, I have lived in Madrid for most of my life. It was in this city that I studied sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts. I have always painted, but until recently I had not felt the need to share what I did with other people. My opening to the outside world has coincided with my move to a small town in Alicante, in the Mediterranean coast, and to a radical transformation in the way I paint, inspired by the three artists that have most inspired me: Basquiat, Chagall and Dubuffet. I am interested not only in the work by the latter, but also by his ideas on Art Brut, in which I fit not only due to my deliberate move away from academic art, but also because I suffer from a serious mental illness which is in some ways reflected in the recurrent subjects of my works and in the way I paint.
Like Picasso, I have always believed that all children are essentially artists and that it is formal education that makes them loose their fresh approach to art. Because of this, I aim to come as close as possible to their way of painting. This process has made me move away from a style that was little refined but which aimed for precision and adopt one where images are created in few brushstrokes and with ...