I’m a contemporary painter, figurative and abstract, focusing on color, and symbolic forms. Working among Barcelona, Washington, DC and San Diego -after intense beginnings in Venezuela- has shaped a muti styled collection of acrylic, ink, and oil paintings that explore the relationships between nature, human figure, and abstraction. My works try fluidity between spiritual subjects and concrete compositions, reflecting a broad engagement with reality and fiction.

I get my images developed through incremental adjustments, revisions, and experimentation to imagine the final result through the physical experience of painting and canvas: the real world at the tip of the brush.

These paintings intend a philosophical dialog about visual language and human existence, with joy and hope for global peace and happiness.

Rafael Gallardo.