about me
My work seeks a balance between dualities: the precise detail and the unfinished, between form and emptiness.
Through various media, I combine detailed human forms and figures with ethereal landscapes that distort our perception, creating tension between what is present and what is merely suggested.
The creative process is fundamental to my work; materials are not only tools for execution but also a source of inspiration. I meticulously apply technique to detail the figurative elements while allowing areas where watercolor flows freely, creating contrasts between control and chance. This approach enables me to explore the duality between the finished and the unfinished, the tangible and the ephemeral, inviting the viewer to complete the visual narrative.
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"In my beginnings, drawing became a natural habit for me, a personal refuge to the world where I could isolate myself and listen to my own feelings, giving them meaning and self-awareness.
Growing up in a family without artistic interests, I never had a role model or creative environment to be fully undrstood. In my world, there were only two options: study a profitable career or find a job. School didn’t nourish me, and I felt out of place, so in order to follow my instinct, I escaped those obligations imposed by what was stablished. The situation at home and school became so tense that I needed emotional protection, and drawing became my outlet.
Over the years, with the rise of social media, I was deeply inspired by people that was creating Art and sharing it. My persistence and dedication to painting began to change my confidence; gradually, my surroundings started to value my work, and my career began to bloom online.
I believe all those feelings of not belonging and not being understood drive me to seek a hidden truth in Art, a sense of comprehension that goes beyond words. Through my work, I strive to share that intimate corner of the heart where emotions reside in their purest form.
I invite others to find their own refuge in Art, to discover that true value lies not in what we say with words, but in what we feel and share without actually saying it."
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C.V.
19 Nov 1986. Barcelona
I studied Illustration at Escuela Superior de Diseño in Palma de Mallorca, where I grew up. I continued my studies by learning engraving techniques and life drawing at the Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design and The Art Academy in London.
I have worked by combining the world of illustration and the art world. Living with a constant duality has marked a constant development and research of my own style. A traditional and academic foundation is fused with the modernity of the new technologies I use to create my own references.
To me, the artistic trajectory is a continuous research and resilience to social and individual changes. Art must reflect these thoughts in all magnitude, from the quietest action to the deepest feeling.
2010-2011 Life drawing at Art Academy, London, UK.
2010-2011 Etching at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, UK.
2008-2010 Illustration at Escuela Superior de Diseño de las I.Balears
EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS
2023 Mural ArtFestival PortoPi | Mallorca.
2023 Exhibited work at Babbo | Mallorca.
2023 Etching series made at Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró | Palma.
2022 Nit de l'art'22 Showroom at Hoff | Palma.
2022 Mural at 6th Aftersun Festival | Malllorca.
2022 ArtVent Collective exhibition | Lloret de Vistalegre.
2020 PIAB 2021 | FIABCN Worldwide Artist Award Nominees
2020 Etching series made at Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró | Palma.
2019 Individual at La Casa Inundada | Sineu.
2018 Collective at Spoke Gallery | NewYork.
2018 Collection 'Stellarscapes' lightbox for Tui Cruceros.
2018 Feria Nacional de Artistas'18, Palacio Revillagigedo | Asturias.
2018 Collective 'The Color of Water' at Robert Llange Studios | Sout Carolina, EU.
2018 Mural Painting Nit de l'Art | Porreres.
2017 Bloomberg Markets Magazine Cover.
2015-2016 Research period. New tecniques exploration.
2014 T/6 - Collective (lithography) at Edicions 6A Obra Gràfica | Palma.
2014 “El Armario del Puro II” at Puro Hotel | Palma.
2013 GEOSMINA - Individual exhibition at Galeria ABA ART Contemporani | Palma
2013 “Affordable Art Fair Brussels'13” Galería Gaudí | Belgium.
2012 Collective “LePopUp” with “Retratos de Autor” | Madrid.
2012 “ST-Art Fair'12” Galeria Gaudí from Madrid in Strasburg | France.
2012 Individual “Retratos de Autor” at La Intrusa Showroom | Madrid.
2012 Collective “Tatto the Girl” en MUTUO Centro de Arte | Barcelona.
2012 Collective “CABINET EXHIBITION” en Islington Arts Factory | London.
2012 Colab with ARTamTam Imaging during Nit de l'Art'12 | Palma.
2012 Collective “Nobody Like(s) You” during “Nit de l'Art'12” at La Parada de los Monstruos | Palma.
2012 Collective “All In #1” at Galeria SKL | Palma.
2011 “ConPuntoRojo.com” en Sunset Club | Palma.
2011 Collective “Nobody like(s) you” during “Nit de l'Art'11” at La Parada de los Mosntruos | Palma.
2011 “Festival Internacional de Música Clásica de Sóller”, Casal i Museu de Sóller | Sóller.
2010 Individual at Tresorería General de la Seguridad Social en Islas Baleares | Palma.
2010 Showroom “El Armario del Puro” at Puro Hotel | Palma.
2010 Collective "Finestra Emergent IV" in collaboration with Associació PIC at Ambigú Bar | Palma.
2010 Jon Urgoiti Anticuario – Galeria | Madrid.
2010 Individual “Reflexión y Dispersión” at Parc de Canet | Esporles.
2009 “COOMMA” Collective at Galería Intersecció Art | Palma.
INTERVIEWS, CLIENTS & MAGAZINES
News, Milk Magazine, Ganchitos&Pepsiboom. Vamos 365, Carpaccio Magazine, My Modern Met, Art Flakes, Tendencias, Empty Kingdom, Zilla Mag, 40fakes, Parnassus (London)
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- It is not easy to define his work, although realism is the constant, each work results from a unique and transitory process and theme. Depending on his experiences and his environment, he uses one type of technique or another, color or black and white: proof of constant and oscillating evolution.-
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