Laura López Balza

The drawings and paintings of Laura López Balza (Santander, 1984) are energetic, intimate, funny, uninhibited and sometimes sour. Through them she shows and spreads her enthusiasm for the infinite richness and variety of what is observed, lived and imagined.
His work deals with primary emotions in a passionate and expressive way, narrating his own life experience through an inner world composed of fables in which nature, landscape or everyday life are the protagonists.

They are minimal stories, remembered, imagined, lived or idealised, reflecting desires, preferences or fears, but always a hymn to the joy of living. Laura paints to see, to know and to understand. Formally, her work could be described as anti-academic, defined by a great intensity in chromatic interaction and a certain primitivism in form, which links it to positions of great transcendence in contemporary art, those that choose not to strictly respect the laws of illusionist painting in order to achieve greater expressiveness and interaction.

The artist's creative process is based on her personal experience and an extraordinary sensitivity to perceive the world and all that inhabits it. Close to ancestral animism and to the traditions of symbolism, surrealism and expressionism, everything in her work is alive and magically communicates with each other. Humans, animals and all the elements of nature are placed on the same level and share sensations, supported by the vibration of her very wide chromatic palette and her intuitive compositions, far from any canon. Both colour and form are born of pure emotion, brought to the surface with a formidable freedom of expression that escapes conventionalism and manages to represent much more than what the eye sees. His stories appeal to the emotions of each viewer and demand their full attention, as they are full of subtle details that turn each work into a device capable of transforming those who perceive it through aesthetic experience.

Her paintings recount events or sensations experienced by the artist so that they do not fade into oblivion, taking on the canvas, cardboard or paper a status of privileged moment and absolute present. This speaks to us of a precious way of understanding life, which attaches great importance to small discoveries and everyday surprises.