The Global Art
Carmen Valverde
Valverde is a young painter in every sense of the word.Born in 1966 in Terrassa
(Barcelona, Spain), she definitely is young both in age and in artistic
trajectory.
To the everlasting question of the meaning of ART, Valverde responds:"For me, it
is the expression of feelings"
That is a concept to bear in mind when evaluating her work.
She started her work drawing, as the majority of painters did, but naturally
evolved into a painter. However, she had a self-taught evolution. She trained
herself by analyzing and studying the great masters of classic and contemporary
painting; trying out different media (watercolours, carbon, pastel or oils) and
dealing with a variety of subjects and styles (still lifes, landscapes, cubism
or abstract topics) before she reached her current creative stage, broadly
defined as "naturalistic portrait".
Se initiated her naturalistic stage with the painting " Girls from Nepal", a
work of art that initially was to be just one more in Valverde's experimental
trajectory, but elicited in her such strong feeling that the artist felt
literally so "addicted" to that creative outlook, that she has not been able to
abandon it.
Every time Valverde creates one of her paintings, she produces such and outburst
of disturbing sensations in the observer that he or she is overcome by feelings
of distress and helplessness.
She achieves that magic through the characters, preferably children ... "their
glance is emotive, they are defenceless beings who need us"... Valverde presents
them with sadness, sorrow, with the look of the exploited and unsupported, a
glint of their surroundings.
Technically, her soft and perfectionist stroke allows a reliable reproduction of
the faces and expressions of the characters, as well as the texture of their
clothing. The backgrounds are metaphors of the painting; the somber grays of her
Nepal or India paintings evoke the dramatic reality of her characters. However,
the white grounds call forth her wish of hope for the children she paints.
Her work is full of natural and spontaneous talent not submitted to trends or
pressures, but, compromised with the current social reality.
Artist's contact: carmenvalverde @ menta.net