Serie: Large Format Artworks

Technique: Latex on canvas

Size: 110 x 185 cm

Year: 2007

"Butterfly Woman" is a painting that overlaps several images that emerged from nature and that suggest different characters and moods.

The central image of the kneeling naked woman, anonymous, does not show her face, but covers it with her hands raised in a prayerful position. Her posture is one of prayer, of fragility, of total vulnerability.

On the other hand, the butterfly wings, a fanciful version of the type known as "Atlas", wings that suggest the delicacy, the subtle and the ethereal.

These wings, however, contain other animal traits: at their ends, individual profiles of Bald Eagles, the quintessential personification of the indomitable and warrior spirit; and in the center two eyes of a puma, a great American feline, a solitary animal, a symbol of strength and stealth, whose grace and power have been widely admired in the cultures of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

Finally, the figure is in an area of vegetation, standing on some leaves of luminous greenery, which accentuate the idea of the jungle, the wild and the intense.

 Its composition alludes to the representation of the fragility of nature, which is at the mercy of a selfish and superfluous humanity, which does not pay attention to the consequences of its acts of destruction and annihilation of the air, soils, waters, flora and fauna. world fauna.

It is a plea, a call for reflection on the need to take care of our world and the beings that inhabit it, who accompany and help man, with his beauty and his irreplaceable presence in ecosystems around the world.

Serie: Large Format Artworks

Technique: Latex on canvas

Size: 125 x 65 cm

Year: 2007

For the Celtic tradition, the cat was basically a beneficial animal, whose eyes are considered the door of the Otherworld.

Sacred animal, revered and sometimes excessively pampered, within Tibetan Buddhism it is considered a companion in the obituary passage, and represents the subconscious of the one who dreams (or travels) in lucid dreams.

The Romans appreciated the feline's spirit of independence so much that even the goddess Libertas was represented with a cat, a symbol of absolute freedom.

In ancient Egypt, domestic cats were considered sacred animals.

They were worshiped for their ability to decrease the mouse population in the Nile cereal fields, which are of capital economic importance.

The Egyptians sought to seek the contentment of Bastet, the goddess of protection, beauty and pleasure, love and fertility.

This goddess was represented with the body of a woman and the head of a cat. Precisely, it was through those feline eyes that the goddess Bastet (who believed that she lived in the body of cats) scrutinized the souls of men, controlling their actions.

"Cat Woman" presents a symbiosis of great visual intensity between a cat and a woman, highlighting the strength of the feline eyes, which possess and contain the woman, who remains anonymous, since she does not show her face.

Through these eyes, just as the Egyptian goddess Bastet did, it seeks to reach the soul of the person who looks at them, crossing their own gaze, surprising them until they are intimidated.

The composition synthesizes two culturally complementary ideas, such as the feminine and the feline, united in the image of a complex spirit, but at the same time beautiful, seductive and cunning, graceful and mysterious.

Serie: Large Format Artworks

Technique: Latex on canvas

Size: 65 x 130 cm

Year: 2007

In Greek mythology, a nymph is any member of a large group of female nature spirits, sometimes attached to a particular place or orography.

Nymphs are the personifications of the creative and encouraging activities of nature.

Their home is in the mountains and groves, in the springs and rivers, in the valleys and cold grottoes.

The name "nymph" means "young marriageable women, girlfriends" and they are the beings that inhabit nature.

They are usually taken as daughters of Zeus and personify the natural force that presides over the reproduction and fecundity of nature. Her life, unlike Greek women, revolves around passions and feelings.

Their beauty is proverbial, and just as all nymphs are beautiful, they are also lovers of dance and music.

 The Dryads or Hamadríades are the nymphs that live in the trees.

They die when the trees decay or are cut down or they live for many years, but a day comes when they fatally disappear.

The lynx, according to Greco-Roman mythology, was born from the pride and disobedience of Lynx, a Scythian king who had received from Triptolemus the privilege of being the first man to know the secrets of agriculture, but, by refusing to share this knowledge with his fellow men , was turned into an animal and condemned to live in the woods forever.

According to Roman beliefs, the sight of lynxes is so good that it would allow them to see through objects.

The image that the painting shows us takes these mythological ideas, showing a Hamadryad sweetly contemplating a lynx that is partially hidden behind the tree that it inhabits.

The lynx has already seen and knows her, and now she sets out to see through the eyes of the beholder and to know her interior, penetrating sharply into the depths of the forests of her soul.

Serie: Large Format Artworks

Technique: Latex on canvas

Size: 85 x 190 cm

Year: 2007

The Three Graces

Daughters of Zeus and the nymph Eurynome (daughter of the Ocean Titan), the Three Graces were the goddesses of all that was associated with joy, beauty, adornment, art, music, glory, dance, festivity and rejoicing.

They presided over the banquets, the dances and all the pleasant activities and celebrations, in short, everything that could be pleasant, pleasant, interesting, attractive in the world.

They gave gods and mortals joy, eloquence, liberality and wisdom, the genius to be an artist and were regular company on Olympus of Aphrodite and Eros and are closely related to the Muses.

They are usually represented as three intertwined naked female figures performing a dance.

Thaleia or Thalia is the goddess of festivity and lustful feasts. Her name also means "the flourishing one" in the sense of the greening and blooming of spring. Its rose is characterized by large clusters of creamy white with double buds that are very aromatic.

Aglaia personifies beauty, splendor, reason and glory. The rose that bears her name is white with yellowish-cream reflections, a vigorous and charming flower with a strong and pleasant fragrance.

Euphrosyne or Euphrosine is the goddess of good spirits, youth, joy, exhilaration and friendship. The flower named in her honor is a rose of strong color when it opens its bud, but it pales with the passage of days. It blooms in the form of bouquets and its fragrance is attractive, reminiscent of the aroma of tea.

The work combines a current version of the Hellenic bas-relief of the "Three Graces" found in the Louvre Museum and dating from the s. III BC those who are missing their heads and feet, accompanied by their respective roses, creations of a 19th century French botanist.

The three sisters are linked, performing a voluptuous dance.

It is a composition of great simplicity that gets its rhythm from the sinuosity of the bodies.

Serie: Large Format Artworks

Technique: Latex on canvas

Size: 130 x 175 cm

Year: 2007

It is an original image, representing the serene face of a Christ full of compassion, mercy and tenderness.

His features are reminiscent of iconographic images, although the treatment of color and shadows makes it clear that he does not pretend to be.

Even so, as a humble version of the face of Jesus, this work seeks the intimate and intuitive contact of the observer with the divine energy represented in the image.

The act of contemplating a religious image appeals to the most primitive ritual of man, which is his relationship and communication with his divinity.

The artist's contribution is to achieve certain atmospheres that awaken in the viewer emotions that connect him with spirituality and the message of the religious image.