What inspires you?

Any situation and place can inspire me, a certain light, a color, the shape of a stone, a vase or a plate. But also the sound of water, wind, an insect and in the same way the smell of wet earth, a flower, freshly cut grass ... My sources of inspiration are many and varied, but especially nature inspires me.

Describe your creative process.

Normally I start to work without a previous sketch. The first thing I do in front of a blank canvas or paper is to put color and more color into it, vehemently, sometimes also graphics, almost always in black. After a while of painting, it will be the color stain or perhaps a small area of the painting that will tell me how to continue ...

What are 3 words that best describe your work?

Color, Graphism, Expression

Who are some artists that have influenced your work?

From a very young age I was fascinated by Paul Cézanne. The Fauvists opened a great path for me: Jawlensky, Vlaminck, Derain, Kirchner and also Kandinsky and Matisse. I always liked Picasso for his bravery, later on I was influenced by Esteban Vicente and the American Abstract Expressionists: Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Willem De Kooning, Jackson Pollock ... I cannot stop mentioning my admiration for Pierre Alechinsky.

What is the most important tool when creating your work?

My imagination and my feelings, sometimes in a relaxed way and others with a vehemence.

What is the best piece of advice you have been given?

As a young man, with my drawing teachers, I learned that a lot of tenacity, effort and perseverance were necessary. The discipline that I learned then always helped me, I at least need hours in the studio to carry out my work. Over the years it was important for me to "unlearn" and free myself from rigid schemes.

Where do you go for inspiration?

My inspiration is found mainly in nature, but whenever I see an exhibition or go to a museum, a spring moves in me that makes me return to the brushes with more desire and determination. I also adore the light of the city, the stillness of an afternoon of reading, car trips enjoying the landscape ...