Painting
Original paintings: oil on canvas within the Málaga school of painting, graphite on paper and digital illustration.
Portrait of Ainhoa
Graphite on paper
A portrait of my daughter Ainhoa. The subject is her sitting on “Platero”, the popular sculpture in a Málaga park inspired by the work of Juan Ramón Jiménez.
Dialogue Between the Masters of Art in 11th-Century Málaga
Oil on canvas
A dialogue between a personal reinterpretation of a work by Mariano Fortuny, showing a ruin from the past with Muslim Málaga in the background, the Alcazaba and Gibralfaro, and, in the foreground, the other speaker: the Fallen Angel by Ricardo Bellver. Two artists who, though not from Málaga, have been a powerful source of inspiration for Málaga’s arts. Standing before the ruins left by time, the fallen angel also works as a metaphor for the fall and fragility of all things human: even the grandest things end up as ruins, and only art keeps the dialogue between eras alive.
Oriental Pond
Oil on canvas
An Orientalist scene in which the landscape invites you to walk through a place of peace, marked by stepping stones. The tones convey the calm of moving through its spaces. Painted within the Málaga school of painting, with short, delicate and precise brushstrokes.
Muelle Uno
Oil on canvas
A landscape with a recognizable view of Muelle Uno in Málaga. Painted within the Málaga school of painting, using small, delicate and precise brushstrokes.
Melilla, a Language Between Cultures
Oil on canvas · First prize, painting contest of the Casa de Melilla in Málaga
First-prize winner at the painting contest of the Casa de Melilla in Málaga. A metaphorical dialogue between the elements that represent the autonomous city: the amphora, for its Phoenician origins, as with Málaga; the three cultures, represented by doves embracing harmoniously; and the central postcard, with the seaward view one has when approaching Melilla by sea. All of it set on a low wall with arabesque tiles, Nasrid art, for its deep roots in Islamic culture, with the heraldic coat of arms on the cloth, and surrounded by a garland of flowers representing beauty and the ephemeral passage of human life. Also painted within the Málaga school of painting.
Climbing Monte San Antón
Oil on canvas
A view of Monte San Antón along one of its uphill paths, highlighting the variety of vegetation as well as the people captured while walking the trail. Touches of brushwork within the Málaga school of painting.
Cortina del Muelle
Oil on canvas
A landscape fragment of a popular area in central Málaga, the Cortina del Muelle. A work within the pictorial style of Málaga painting, with short, delicate and precise brushwork.
Cenachero of Málaga, by Jaime Pimentel
Oil on canvas
A work portraying the famous sculpture by Jaime Pimentel, which takes the popular image of the cenachero (the traditional Málaga fish vendor) as its reference. Painted in oil on canvas within the Málaga schools of painting, with short, delicate and precise brushstrokes.
Goldfinch
Digital illustration · Texture study in Procreate
A texture study made in Procreate. More than a drawing, it is an investigation: testing brushes and playing with grain, stroke and transparency to understand how each surface behaves. Just as with paper, the process is one of trial and discard, brush after brush, until the tool says what the hand is looking for.
