Artist Profile - Mercedes Elias

Refresco a La Tarde (oil on canvas unframed 41 x 27cm) £340 plus postage
Refresco a La Tarde (oil on canvas unframed 41 x 27cm) £340 plus postage

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Biography
Artist Statement

Refresco a La Tarde (oil on canvas unframed 41 x 27cm) £340 plus postage Chica de Azul oil on canvas 33 x 24cm £215 plus p&p Cantante de Fados (oil on canvas unframed 33 x 41cm) £340 plus postage Daiquiri (oil on canvas unframed 41 x 27cm) £340 plus postage
Mujer De Rojo oil on canvas 27 x 22cm £215 plus p&p Muelle oil on canvas 35 x 27cm £200 plus p&p Smoke oil on canvas (sold) Mariana de Invierno I (oil on canvas, 50 x 65 cm) £700 plus p+p
Interior (oil on canvas unframed 33 x 41cm) £340 plus postage Fondo Naranja (oil on canvas unframed 50 x 65cm) £700 plus postage com.JPG Paseo de Tarde (oil on canvas, 65 x 50 cm) £700 plus p+p Chica Sudamericana oil on canvas 27x22cm £200 plus p&p
Abrigo Azul (oil on canvas unframed 38 x 55cm) £475 plus postage Chica Fumando (oil on canvas unframed 27 x 41cm) £340 plus postage Habitación De Hotel oil on canvas 33 x 24cm £215 plus p&p Habitación Verde oil on canvas 35 x 27cm SOLD

Biography

Mercedes was born in Barcelona and studied Spanish Litreature at the Barcelona University before studying as a Erasmus Student at Pisa University in Italy. She returned to study as a postgraduate at Barcelona before studying drawing and painting at Escola Lliure Del Mediterrani de Barcelona . Her study of art continued at the Academy of fine Arts of Manuel Sánchez Almendros, and on courses at Escola d’Arts i Oficis de la Diputació de Barcelona.


Artist Statement

I spent four years studying classical drawing and painting in Escola Lliure Del Mediterrani de Barcelona (directed by the painter J. Torrents Lladó). I have since trained under Manuel Sanchez Almendros and I form part of a studio cooperative in Barcelona, regularly participating in open studios.

My main influence is the “light” drawing inspiration from painters such as Velázquez, Vermeer and Sorolla. Light is my first technical objective. Light in painting is the time, the moment. The subjects of my work are women caught in time: it doesn’t matter what they’re doing or where they belong. All of them have in common their individual time, fixed in their own time. Anonymous women appear in my pictures centred in their own luminosity.

The target I follow now, as a painter, is to synthesize my feelings with the greatest simplicity.