Tonalidades is the title of my latest exhibition at the Rafael Pérez Hernando gallery in Madrid. During the last year I have worked on a series of canvases with different formats, focusing my attention on how lines —of different thicknesses and colours— can transform the interior of squares and rectangles. These lines modify the spaces, tighten them and reorganize them, creating new relationships within the canvas.

I'm interested in how, as the size or proportions of these frames are changed, the way that the colour and shape are communicated also changes.

Colour appears as an instinctive expression. I don't think too much about it: I let it emerge. Its hues generate sensations and atmospheres that I don't seek to fully control. I like its force and the way it occupies the pictorial space, establishing relationships and contrasts that define the rhythm of the work.

I work from intuition, guided by what colour, line, and space ask of me. Each work is, essentially, a conversation between those hues and my own gesture.

(Text by Beatriz Olano)