RAQUEL ALVAREZ SARDINA
Raquel Alvarez Sardina was born in Barcelona. At the age of seventeen she joined Academia Leonardo da Vinci and in 1986 she started a degree in Fine Arts. Whilst doing the degree she attended academia Sant Vicenç and Boter/ Santalo and completed a drawing course at ‘Academia Lorenzo de Medici’ in Florence. After graduating in 1991 she came to England where she studied a Masters Degree at Cardiff University. Drawing influence from the Master painters of the Spanish Tenebrism of the Baroque period she has developed a personal contemporary style to represent beauty. Her painting method is slow, precise and full of feeling. It is as though she wants us to slow down and contemplate a few simple objects in silence. She spends a considerable amount of time setting the composition; each fruit or object is placed carefully in the space. Sketching is useful to decide, sometimes by a matter of millimetres where every fruit or leave should be. When she is happy with the composition she draws directly onto the canvas with a brush.
LEFT Mandarins Oil on Linen | 42 x 42 cm | £2400 TOP Strawberries Oil on Birch Panel | 27 x 23 cm | £1250 RIGHT Clementine Oil on Birch Panel | 28 x 25 cm | £750
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