C. Mirasierras

I was born in Barcelona (Spain) in 1956. At the age of 10 years I was used to painting on big-sized primed cardboards that my mother prepared for me. I received paint lessons from Antoine Paget, a French watercolorist settled as a retiree in a Spanish small village called Tordera where my mother owned a house. At the age of 16 my art tutor passed away, and I gave up painting, thinking that I wouldn’t use a brush anymore in my life. But some twenty years later I found myself visiting art galleries and talking about art with painters during my visits to the numerous Barcelona art galleries. A friend of mine, Jorge Ruíz, a painter from Málaga, asked me, why don’t you start painting again? I bought some gouache paints and some brushes and started to sketch and work on a few still life paintings and landscapes, in the Ramón Rogent manner. My Malaga friend saw the paintings and added: “not bad chum, but forget these soap water paints and use oil paint instead, you’ll get better results”. And I did so. The figurative scheme was OK at the moment, but I was caressing the idea of other new trends that would better represent what I had in…