It is said that the biggest challenge for an artist is to find his way, his own voice. At the beginning of the learning process, technical achievements and execution skills attract all the attention. Then comes the admiration for other...

I confess (and I know I’m not alone in this) that I profess a kind of fetishism for traditional artist materials. For example, I enjoy the feelings I get with drawing papers with their different textures and shades of white;...

Things happen in mysterious ways. Not so many years ago, an artist acquired notoriety through a slow and laborious pathway made of exhibitions, galleries and collectors to end up hopefully in the biennial and public recognition. Nowadays, social media has...

In general, we will be referring to oil colors although most of the reflections that are made are extendable to other media such as acrylic or watercolor. Finding a method In becoming a painter, most of us start with the...

A workshop memory I remember that, during a workshop I attended years ago, Antonio López held an informal colloquium at the end of the day. Urged by the questions, he talked to us about painting and painters; about his predilections...

In mid July 2016, I was lucky enough to be able to organize a workshop with Stuart Shils at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Madrid. We were a small group of 15 artists and I think I am not...

A Nicolás Uribe Workshop in Madrid Nicolás Uribe has been recently teaching one of The Art Digger workshops at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Madrid. I think I am not wrong if I interpret the general feeling of all...

It must have happen in the time when Richard Diebenkorn once again left disoriented critics and observers when he came back to abstraction. An artistic trip, that of Diebenkorn, that they found it hard  to follow. It was in his...

The artistic fluctuations of Sangram Majumdar between the figurative and the abstract, or in that hybrid in-between, as he calls it, seem to be a reflection of his own personal story. He was born in Calcutta, India, and moved to...

In March of 2015 I had the opportunity to interview Master painter Florencio Galindo in his study of Avila. A year and a half later he passed away. This video shows a summary of that afternoon of conversation in which...