ANA DEL CASTILLO - Villa in Malta

I love the new forms in architecture, and the lighting of buildings at dusk. On this occasion the house I have painted is in Malta, a cutting-edge stone-and-plaster villa. Pigments with acrylics have been used on canvas and paper. Finished with epoxy resin; the resin finish is not perfect, the imperfections in its drying give each work a different character. On the other hand, the finish is shiny, and the artist aims to give her works a distinctly photographic quality.

The artist attaches a certificate of authenticity, sends the work insured, with a tracking number and with maximum speed.
Ana del Castillo is a photographer and artist, winner of various awards, who works for different agencies around the world and has exhibited her works in London, Italy, and Spain.
She uses her photos as inspiration in most of her paintings in which architecture and urban landscapes of cities across Europe or America predominate.
Economist and multidisciplinary artist (Godella, Valencia, 1963). Professionally she is an economist, active in online commerce in recent years, a activity she has postponed to devote herself almost exclusively to traveling, to experimenting as a painter, and to working for different international agencies as a photographer.
Her beginnings in photography go back to childhood; her work has appeared in the daily ABC, in publications of the Ministry of Culture, various books, catalogs, and on the billboards of buses in Castellón, in addition to various awards and exhibitions in London or Madrid. Her academic training spanned several years with photographer Tere Arcos.
She finds in Europe, even as globalization advances at a rapid pace, in each country and its cities, unique characteristics that she tries to capture in her images, both of people she encounters on the street and of buildings from every era, or moments in any location.
Her travels to Iceland, Switzerland, South America, Africa, or Norway have influenced her with their mountains, architectures, and seas, another of her great themes at both pictorial and photographic levels.
Her dedication to painting came later. She began her artistic training with artist Álvaro Romero in the nineties, continued with the godellense painter Germá Llorís, then with painter Fernando Jiménez and with Lucía Peiró i Lloret, a renowned plastic artist. “At the start of the new century she co-founded a heterogeneous group of artists called Equipo-Argo, now comprised of thirteen women, who carry out their activity in a warehouse on the outskirts of Valencia. The group remains in constant contact among themselves and with artistic avant-gardes in various fields. One of the group’s goals is to stage one or two exhibitions a year. There have already been many exhibitions by this group in our geography.

Technically, for the creation of her paintings she uses powder pigments; “their tonal range is ideal for my works, turning the studio into a kind of laboratory of plates and powders in which binders, resins, etc., compose a chaotic universe where I feel absolutely serene and creative.”
In recent years her artistic production has been showcased in exhibitions, mentions, and awards. Notable early achievements in 2016 with Equipo-Argo include the collective at Centre d’Art Taller d’Ivars in Benissa (Alicante), the May collective at espai.inf, an exhibition space at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and the collective exhibition Sala Virgen de la Fuente (Teruel); the collective at Casa Cultura Rocafort “La Superficie del Círculo”; in 2017, with the same collective, Mirada de Dona at La Marina El Puig de Santa María (Valencia), Sala Exposiciones Antiguo Ayuntamiento Bétera (Valencia), Sala Exposiciones Museros (Valencia), Mirada de Dona at Sala Exposiciones La Eliana (Valencia), Paisatge Urbà at Sala Exposiciones Náquera (Valencia); and in 2018 also with Equipo-Argo at Sala Exposiciones Villa Eugenia de Godella (Valencia) with “Abstractus,” collective at Sala Exposiciones Municipal de Mislata (Valencia) and Sala Exposiciones Biblioteca Dénia (Alicante), with “Abstractus,” and a collective at Sala Exposiciones Massamagrell (Valencia) with “Black and White.”

She has been selected for the XXXIV Painting Contest “Salvador Soria” in Vila de Benissa (Alicante), in the Festival D’Arts Quart de Poblet (Valencia), in the XIII Prize for Painting Desideri Llombarte in Peñarroya de Tastavins (Teruel) in 2016. The following year she is selected by the Fundación Legado Andalusí, touring her work across the country; she is a finalist in Premi de Pintura Ciutat de Manises (Valencia), selected in Valencia Ciutat Oberta Bienal de las Artes de Valencia. For 2018 her work is selected for the Dances de Alcalá series in the photography prize of the Turística Association Gúdar-Javalambre (Teruel), wins later editions, and is selected in the International Art Contest “José Camarón” in Segorbe.

In awards, she obtained the Camarón prize at the Segorbe Art Contest (Castellón) in 2014, she has shown individually with her Europe in Moments series at the Bancaja foundation in Segorbe, in 2016 she won the Las Provincias Photographic Marathon in Dénia (Alicante), won the Balearia prize, and the runner-up in the I Eurostars Hotel Real Photography Prize. She is selected and exhibited at the Valencian Cultural Entity El Piló in 2016 and 2023, and together with Equipo-Argo she held a collective at the prestigious Godella Villa Eugenia exhibition hall in 2018, an exhibition that later moved to the municipal exhibition hall of Mislata.

She was again selected with work exhibited in the José Camarón International Art Contest in Segorbe in 2020, 2023, and 2024.

At the end of 2024 she held a collective exhibition at the Galería Ronda in Valencia, and she is represented by Galería del Sol, also located in Valencia.

She received the National Heritage photography prize from the hands of the Infanta in Madrid in December 2024.

She continues to receive numerous awards for her photographs and paintings, and has several exhibitions on her schedule for the coming months across Spain.

According to the prestigious critic LFMM, “her architectural works transcend the photographic plane to be endowed with a surreal quality that gives them undeniable value.”

Patxi Guerrero Carot (Professor at Jaume I University) published in various media."