The works in Retratos Naturales are the fruit of a trip in the summer of 2011 to Wales, to visit some friends who run a seed company. We visited their enormous garden out in the countryside, where they grow plants for seed. They treat it as something sacred, and the truth is that it is. The more I looked at the plants, the more they cultivated my creativity.
On rediscovering nature and the vibration it silently sends me, I wanted to translate it into images: paintings in black and white, with shades of grey, which sometimes carry a very subtle touch of colour. My aim is to make visible the soul of plants, to draw out their almost human presence and the value of nature.
I’m interested in this series
