Three Questions……

1:) Can you explain your artistic process?

Simply put: I walk, collect, combine, draw and make a photo of the “still life¨.

Walking gives me time to contemplate and experience the nearby surroundings. I see how discarded objects live together with trees and bushes. I collect them for the still life’s.

To take the object away from the place where I found it is the first disturbance and change. The next one is to combine them with other objects I found in other places. Bringing them together creates a narrative. I draw in the still-life to interfere, to enter the discussion. Then I take a photo to move the whole story even further away from reality so that the image becomes autonomous.

2:) Can you explain something about the content of your work and the inspiration/impetus behind it?

I love to work within the language of drawing. Lines, planes, structures, spaces etc. But on top of this abstract framework I touch on the questions about the ¨nature¨ of nature. The identity of objects and how they relate to time, their environment and to us. 

I think it’s important to connect with the world around us, on an empathetic level. Being aware of not only the living world around you but also the world of objects.

3:) How and where do you make your work?

I’ve built a studio in the garden, in the countryside, near Villar del Arzobispo, (approximately 50 km from Valencia), following the example of my grandfather who was a painter and violin builder.  I always loved his studio and hoped that one day I would be able to built my own studio in the garden too!

It is full of boxes with things I’ve collected over the years, organized by material, size or shape. There is a box for dried-out pomegranates and shelled almonds, another for rubber or iron objects.

I have two tables. One I use for drawing and one I use to build a still-life on, set up for photography.
I’ve put in a skylight window in the ceiling, which gives lovely light, but in the summer it can be pretty hot too!.

One side of the studio is a chaos full of boxes and canvases, the other I have to keep empty as it’s where I work. I prefer to work in a chaotic environment, it keeps my thoughts creative and open for random input, but, on the practical side, I need an empty space around the latest piece I’m working on.