Beatriz Elorza
'My work involves creating large-scale, abstract paintings that aim to convey my emotions through color and create a personal pictorial language.
The color is a starting point for me; the fluid brush strokes talk about the freedom I feel when I'm in front of the canvas. Within each painting, nature is a pretext for me to combine and express the dynamism and tensions of my unconscious self.
My paintings evolve as part of a creative process that explores the balance between spontaneity and control at the same time, searching for a harmonic dialogue in the composition but leaving improvisational moves or gestural marks to shake some life into the painting. I create dialogues between different spatial planes and thereby allowing viewers to find their own visual path into this world. The use of color spots, drips, and splatters convey my 'fearless and intuitive' process, and while each work holds a memory of space and time that belongs to me, it also presents itself as a generator of new spaces into the viewer’s mind, opening new interpretations'