Javier Torices

JAVIER TORICES - Footprints 13:23

Técnica: Acrylic

Biografía del Artista: Javier Torices paints the sea. Each brushstroke is a drop of light, the taste of salt, the play between water and sand, a study of the movement of the waves. Torices began his artistic career in his father's studio, where he experimented with basic oil painting techniques before developing a preference for acrylic on wood. In his search for his own style, he explored the possibilities of abstract painting and later urban landscapes, eventually finding his passion and fame in the representation of the sea, with the occasional human figure or coastal city landscape. In his paintings of slippery rocks, foam and water, he does not depict a random portrait, but the shapes that the sea reveals to him. At different times and in different locations, while reflecting and observing in detail. Through the process of ignoring certain elements of the real landscape and adding some from his own imagination, of standing in the same place and contemplating for hours, he is able to create the most expressive and personal compositions, in which nothing is left to chance. A real place that has been transformed by his eyes and immerses the viewer in a suggestive, overwhelming and completely intimate experience. It is the powerful emotional charge that the sea has that leads Torices to focus his pictorial production on it. Whether through violent waves or calm seas, his painting dazzles with its realism and sobriety. The expressive way in which he captures light and movement has made him one of the most skilled and famous realist painters today. Torices has participated in numerous exhibitions in Europe and Asia and has an extensive list of awards and honourable mentions in competitions and contests. His work can be found in prominent collections such as the European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona, ​​the Pérez-Guerra Museum in Huelva, the Barcelona Art and Artists Foundation Collection, the Caja Segovia Collection, Axa Burgos, Caja Madrid, the Colegio Ingenieros Técnicos OP, the Ateneo Cultural 1º de Mayo Collection and the Rafael Botí Foundation for Plastic Arts Collection.