Nickname: Lourdes
Country: Spain
Country: Spain
About me
Lourdes Perlas is an artist born and based in Barcelona.
Her artistic practices talk about landscape with the travel as a main reference. The creative process in her pieces start by observing a space, analyzing its colors, the light and even its smells. Followed by drawing notes à plain air and completed with photographic documentation that allows her to work the art piece from a much more reflexive vision.
Through her work she generates an abstraction of the surroundings but keeping certain realism that allows context to the viewer. With an expressive brushwork, clear colors and formats that she uses from a frontal point of view, the essence of the drawing is elevated.
Watercolor is the main technique she uses but sometimes she complements it with other much more experimental ones such as Gyotaku - a Japanese printing technique -. As support, she always uses acid free cotton paper.
In the past couple of years, she exhibited her work in places such as Instituto Cervantes in Tokyo and in the cty of Bordeaux, Gallery Kunstraum Gerdi Gutperle in Germany, Salon du Dessin et de la Peinture à l’eau en el Grand Palais in Paris, Printed6. Espai Barra de Ferro in Barcelona, Galeria Wingfield Barns Suffolk in the UK, Arte Padova Mostra Moderna e Contemporanea in Italy, Galeria Fort, Cadaques, Gerona. Aqua Art Miami, EEUU, Awagami International Miniature
