Biography

Through painting, I explore nature’s behavior in essential landscapes: deserts, raw, minimally altered, unadorned, and seemingly empty.

My artistic practice unfolds across two distinct phases.

First, in the open. I traverse the landscape —fully immersed— and record its essence through paint, photography, and text. From this material I compose “digital notebooks” that I edit and publish directly from the field.

I have worked in desert, tundra, and steppe regions in Xinjiang (China), Mongolia, and Buryatia (Russia). In 2022, I began recording the Arctic desert during an artistic and scientific residency with the “The Arctic Circle” program. We sailed the Barents Sea aboard a three masted schooner from Tromsø to northern Spitsbergen.

After each residency, I spend extended periods in the studio refining ideas. This second phase is not for making finished artworks, it is for conceiving the painting. In the studio, time is dictated by the paint, not the clock.

I earned both my degree and Ph.D. in Fine Arts from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. My doctorate focused on The Plastic Character of Notation Systems in Music, Dance, and Visual Poetr, languages that continue to inform and intertwine with my painting.