Theo, the Grotto and Me

The self-portrait was the first thing that seduced me to start painting. Recurrent since then, the forest arrived in my painting. My relationship with the forest and its nearness was a natural process in my way to intimacy with the technique. From then on, the affective and intimate ties of my everyday life became explicit in the images and choices of whom to paint. A mother, a father, a brother, children, are my recurrent inspiration. It´s an affective niche that creates itself among the chaos of my intense artwork, either in painting or in other techniques.
In this painting, I paint myself with Theo, my first son and the Grotto, which is a character of the landscape that I constantly use. Symbolically the grotto represents many issues like the motherhood, the feminine, the sacred, the house, the protection, the origin (either human or of painting), among others.