About Me...What I do, how I do it, and why I do it.

I always knew that one day I would paint but I never thought it would take so long for that day to come. Thirty five years of hard work in the vast Argentine pampas kept me away from that dream which came true only seven years ago. I did not know either that painting would take me to “a man's true homeland”, as Rilke wrote, to my childhood.

I am figurative because I need the power of a possible image, a topic, a subject. I need to show a scene, a situation, a story, a drama, a mystery...

From my remote inner self I bring to the surface of the canvas “one image”... My teacher Rebeca Mendoza encourages me to always be conscious of the mutation, the transformation of an emotion into pictorial elements: shape, color, shade, light, value, space and line, through an internal dialogue.

The living model practice nurtures and helps satisfy that representational need. I paint with oil, I do realism and a lot of figuration and I use old photos as triggers. In the timeless unreality of my paintings, the reality of the past attracts me with magnetic force. We come from the past. People of the past contribute with their drama and somehow presage the current moment. By painting, I am a passenger of time, a passenger of men and women, a passenger of the landscape, of beasts and machines.

I also seek to satisfy a personal aesthetical pleasure which not being able to name otherwise, I will simply call “beauty.” I need my paintings to be beautiful in that sense. I do not seek to provoke with ugliness because ugliness can be found, and to a great extent, in the hidden drama of my paintings.

The painters I admire me are also in their own way, passengers of time: Velázquez, Sorolla, Goya, Homer, Hopper, Wyeth…

In the development of my paintings, I try to reach the outcome little by little, with no rush, trying to find in the brush strokes playful relationships I enjoy. I believe in the work of the painter and I do not find it easy to produce a work in fifteen minutes. I need to immerse myself in each of my works, maybe for several days, in the attempt to be as skillful and sensible an artist as I can be.