Artist Statement
I like to consider myself as a painter of light rather than limit myself to a specific category, portrait, landscape, still life ... Light defines shapes, space and gives a meaning to what we see and to my artwork. I usually choose subjects that catch my eye, usually because of the effects of light, and that provoke a strong need to take them on canvas or paper. Once on my easel, I try to enhance what has captivated me most and to bring some magic to the work; capture my particular vision, incorporating touches of abstraction to my work mainly figurative.
In all whole work, both in oils and watercolors, I use essentially a reduced palette of colors based mainly on a cold and a warm tone of each primary color.
While with watercolors I focus more on the initial preliminary drawing, the oil medium allows me to follow my sensations at the moment and improvise, using mainly the techniques of the "alla prima” painting. This allows my work for different styles depending on the medium used.
My influences are many and diverse, since I am curious about new and old artists, and trends, but among my fovourite ones are some classical artists as Joaquín Sorolla, John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer; and more contemporary as Lita Cabellut, Christian Hook, Conor Harrington and Charles Reid.
Biography
Eduardo was born in the city of León, north of Spain, in 1974, where he spent his childhood and adolescence, up to 23 years old, when he emancipated living in several cities in search of his own path. Now he lives in Mallorca (Balearic Islands) since 2013. From childhood he shows interest in art, standing out in the field of painting. Although his studies pointed him in another way, which led him to graduate in Tourism, at the age of 25 he return to his idyll with painting and enter the world of art immersing himself fully in the artistic world: devouring art books , watching videos, attending workshops, museums and exhibitions, and keeping up to date with trends and novelties in the artistic scene. The fundamental pillars of his work are drawing and composition, the base on which his paintings rest, which also reflect the deep knowledge of light, volumes and color that captivate the viewer and directs his gaze. His watercolors and oil paintings have their own distinctive style, which let him attract different audiences with different artistic interest. In his oil paintings he timidly flirts with abstraction, although his work is mainly figurative. He has been working mainly on commissions, participating in some exhibitions and selling his work through the internet. He’s got paintings in private collections in Spain and abroad.
Since 2017, when he joins the Fine Arts Circle of the Balearic Islands and the Association of Watercolor Painters of the Balearic Islands, he is more active in competitions, with good results, and appearances in articles and specialized magazines.
Website: www.eduardoblancoart.com
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