GALGO AFGANO (2024) Painting by Román Manrique De Lara

My professional life has revolved around graphic design. MY artistic career began as a cartoonist of humorous cartoons in the magazine "El Terror" del Savoy, 6. Without knowing very well how I specialized in the design and creativity of labels for the world of food, and in the eighties I participated in the creativity of countless covers for videos, those were the years of the boom of video clubs. I made my small foray into cinema by drawing the story board for the film script "Tempus Fugit" and I ended up as head of the design department at the advertising agency "Publifax" since I worked for the next twelve years while I made my foray into the literary world, getting the Calíope publishing house to publish my first novel "Si se fin el tiempo" in 1998, then followed by 'The Bear's Paw', 'Al compass of Chaos', and 'The Sharp Sickle of the Moon', all of them edited by the Candil publishing house, and finally "Shadows nothing more" digitally edited on Amazon. At the end of my working life I returned to my beginnings of graphic humor and made the humor cartoons for the weekly newspaper "Aqui y Ahora" during the two years of the weekly's life. And I acquired the freedom to express myself artistically as I wanted with retirement, since then, due to my restless life, I dedicate myself to painting souls.

Above all, as an artist I am interested in portraiture, although not disdain paints any landscape, object, animal or thing that attracts me for infinite reasons (composition, color, theme, etc.) But returning to the portrait, when I stand in front of a blank canvas and begin to sketch the face of the one I I intend to capture, I do an introspection of his face that takes me beyond the simple study of his physiognomy, looking for that peculiarity that makes each of us different, that gesture, that look, that grimace, which says everything about the person portrayed. I avoid the precise and precious shapes capable of reflecting the brightness of a pupil, I eliminate it from the start and look for my objective among connected stains until they lead me to the character and I feel that his soul is looking at me from the colorful blurs that I have captured on my canvas , and I know that I have reached my goal when I think I know the person portrayed a little more, it is a strange but effective way to contact others. 

• Nationality: SPAIN
• Date of birth : unknown date
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• Groups: Contemporary Spanish Artists