I am a Colombian architect and notebook artist based between Barcelona and my hometown Ibagué, I feel deeply passionate about the beauty in worldly things, which I try to capture in my notebooks.
The first time I took a sketchbook, in the early 90’s while I was in architecture school, was because I wanted to understand the proportions and materiality of the buildings I found interesting.
Those notebooks gradually became an inseparable object of my travels and architecture work. In 2018, I started an artistic project called “One Day One Drawing” where I represent my environment, my family and my concerns through a daily drawing.
1. Tell us about your background and journey?
I am an architect and have always been in love with pictorial expression. Since I was in my last years of architecture school, I started to sketch the buildings I was interested in.
It was my way to understand how those buildings were designed, the proportions and the relationship between the different parts of those buildings. Then I used to draw to express my own projects and did a lot of digital rendering, it was something I really liked too.
2. What inspired you to pursue art?
I get inspired by all kinds of things, I usually draw what is around me or have a connection with what is happening to me. It can be nature, my family or pets or as I used to do in architectural school, a particular building.
3. How would you describe your style and aesthetics?
I usually draw using the crosshatching technic with fine liners.
4. How did your art evolve?
I still get inspired by the same kind of things, which are the most simple things around me. But since I practice every day my drawing skills are improving and that allow me to approach to more challenging subjects.
5. What is the most challenging and rewarding part of being an artist?
The most challenging part for me is trying to render on paper what I have in my head sometimes it can be very frustrating on the other hand, when I get to render what I have in mind and I am pleased with the result, it is the most satisfying feeling ever.
6. Which artist inspires you the most and why?
I have tons of people that I admire and for so many different kind of reasons, some of them because of their skills some others because the way they transform reality. Some of the artists I look up to are Kim Jung Gi, Paul Heaston, Alvin Chong, Sainer, Luke Adam Hawker between others.
7. What tips and advice would you give to aspiring artists?
I have just one tip and that is to practice, practice all you can, eventually we all find the way but it always comes with hard work.
8. Which is your favorite book and why?
¨Hundred years of solitude¨ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is definitely the book that amazed me the most when I read it, it resumes the best stories I heard, watched or knew while I was growing up in Colombia.
Interviewed By - Serene Ingle
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