JAVIER TORICES

JAVIER TORICES - Footprints 13:23

Technique: Acrylic

Artist Biography: 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 workshop, where he experimented with the basic techniques of oil painting before developing a predilection for acrylic on board. In the search for his own style, he explored the possibilities of abstract painting and later urban landscapes, eventually finding his passion and renown in the representation of the sea, with the occasional human figure or coastal cityscape. In his paintings of slippery rocks, foam and water, he does not represent a fortuitous portrait, but the forms that the sea reveals to him. At different times and in different locations, as he reflects and observes in detail. Through the process of ignoring certain elements of the real landscape and adding some of 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 of the sea that leads Torices to focus his pictorial production on it. Whether through violent waves or gentle 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 skillful and famous realist painters today. Torices has participated in numerous exhibitions in Europe and Asia and has an extensive list of awards and honorable mentions in contests and competitions. His work can be found in outstanding collections such as the European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona, the Pérez-Guerra Museum in Huelva, the Fundación de Arte y Artistas Collection in Barcelona, the Caja Segovia Collection, Axa Burgos, Caja Madrid, the Colegio Ingenieros Técnicos O.P., the Ateneo Cultural 1º de Mayo Collection and the Fundación de Artes Plásticas Rafael Botí Collection.