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Vera de Bidassoa (born in 1972)

This artist has been painting since her early childhood, when she spent her afternoons drawing what she saw in her grandmother’s magazines. After this precocious start, she went on to study painting with several professors, including Jose Mari Apezetxea (known as “The Master of Baztan”), who has been a lasting influence.

Admiring Van Gogh’s use of colour and Cezanne’s brushstroke, she spent several years painting figuratively. After some time, she felt that this approach no longer allowed her to express herself fully. In an effort to find freedom and to build a new creative space for herself and what she seeks to communicate, she abandoned her pictorial approach for one based on introspection.

Since adopting this new path, silence has become an essential tool of her art. Through its simultaneous void and fullness, silence brings forth multiple possibilities and acts as an endless source of inspiration.

She uses colour to express the intensity of the moment, whilst her brushstroke both supports and structures her works. Through her art, she tries to transmit the common drive to exist which she sees as the key motivating factor underlying our being.

Her works of art are found throughout a wide range of private art collections. She has participated in numerous exhibitions, both individual and joint.

     

 

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