My aesthetic came out of charcoal drawings.
I was teaching weekly for years. Almost every class had a demo. Fifteen years of demos. At some point I looked up and realized I preferred my drawings to my paintings. I liked the drawings significantly better.
So I asked myself: how do I translate what I’m doing with charcoal into paint. That question is where a whole body of work came from. The straight-line construction. The aggressive scraping. The tooled surfaces. The way I pull paint across a panel with a rubber wedge instead of pushing it with a brush. All of it is a translation of how I draw.
The style wasn’t borrowed. It was a distillation of how my brain already worked, converted into a painting process that could deliver it.
Excited for September! I´ll be teaching a workshop with @ateliercostabrava
Symbolic images in contemporary art
13-19 September 2026 - Costa Brava, Sant Pere Pescador - a beautiful location!
The most honest paintings are the ones you would want the most yourself. Not what’s impressive. Not what sells. What you’d actually put on your wall.
Self-knowledge is the prerequisite for everything. Style, inspiration, subject matter—they all flow from actually knowing yourself.
There’s a difference between accumulating skill and knowing what to do with it. I spent a long time figuring out what I actually wanted to make. Building a process that produced it consistently—that took longer, and was more personal.
Style should be a byproduct of process, not a goal. Don’t chase an aesthetic—build a process true to how you think, and a genuine aesthetic emerges from that.
Hey everyone, this september I´ll be teaching a workshop with @ateliercostabrava
Symbolic images in contemporary art
13-19 September 2026 - Costa Brava, Sant Pere Pescador a beautiful location!
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