Works & Themes
To comment briefly about my painting, I would like to say that it is rooted in personal experience. I look for beauty in a traditional sense, trying to follow my way of expression. I think that it is impossible to recreate nature perfectly. As I see it, an artist can only emulate it as nature becomes a new reality in the painting.
I have developed my work around various themes and have investigated techniques such as watercolour, oil painting, engraving, woodblock printing, pastels and Japanese painting, among others.
Through my paintings, you may appreciate different approaches. I produced a series of symbolic and abstract paintings and at the same time more realistic works. I love to paint flowers and landscapes because I admire their beauty. We can compare it to the beauty of the human body.
Statement
Since I was very young, I have shown an interest in art. In my childhood, I used to look at drawings, paintings and sculptures around me. I would say that it was from that time that everything started.
My interests are mainly painting and illustration, but I admire the
work of sculptors, textile artists or engravers.
We all know painting is a way of expression beyond words. It is a need, not a choice. When I paint, I create an image, an object whose usefulness is not immediate. Only after some time can I appreciate its value, even its ability to enter unknown corners of my personality and exercise its healing power.
While painting, there is an encounter with myself through interaction with the surrounding world. Because painting requires moments of introspection and isolation.
But, there is
no expression without a potential viewer, nor can we create only from within our internal world.
Among my works, you can see completely abstract paintings or symbolic ones. I choose abstraction or figuration depending on the best way to express a feeling, a thought about daily life or a fantasy. In some works, semi-abstraction forms the world I wanted to recreate and share.
It is the expression which gives soul to the painting. For this reason, I exercise my ability to “say without words”. By bringing together technical and conceptual elements, the true meaning of the painting is aroused from the balance between self-expression and craftmanship.
Technique, colour, shape and composition are essential elements for creation but not the aim of the work. Furthermore, our paintings and drawings are not isolated. If an artist tries to reorder and classify work, several connections to past and present representations will appear. One work might be connected to other people’s creations from one epoch to another. There seems to be a sort of telepathic transmission of feelings and ideas between artists belonging to different moments in history.
Indeed, I witnessed my own time but cannot reject the influences that the meaning of art had in other periods or for different cultures.
Isabel Jiménez, 2024.
Please visit the Spanish version to see more of my work.
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