ANA DEL CASTILLO - Eiserner steg Frankfurt

I adore the new forms in architecture, and the way buildings are lit at dusk. This time it features an urban landscape of Frankfurt at a rainy sunset with the famous iron footbridge over the Main River.
Pigments with acrylics on canvas and paper have been used. Finished with epoxy resin; the resin finish is not perfect, the imperfections in its drying give a different character to each work. On the other hand, the finish is glossy, and the artist wants to confer a distinctly photographic character to her works.
The artist attaches a certificate of authenticity, ships the artwork insured, with tracking number and utmost 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 disparate cities across Europe or America predominate.
Economist and multidisciplinary artist (Godella, Valencia. 1963). Professionally an economist, she has been active in online commerce in recent years, a pursuit she has set aside 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; she has work published in the ABC daily, in publications of the Ministry of Culture, various books, catalogs, and on bus stop posters in Castellón, in addition to numerous 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 in leaps and bounds, in each country and its cities unique characteristics she tries to capture in her images, whether of people she encounters on the street, or buildings of all ages, or moments in any setting.
Her trips to Iceland, Switzerland, South America, Africa, or Norway have influenced her with their mountains, architectures, and seas—other of her major themes, both pictorial and photographic.
Her dedication to painting came later. She began her artistic training with artist Álvaro Romero in the nineties, continued with Godellese painter Germá Llorís, then with painter Fernando Jiménez and with Lucía Peiró i Lloret, a renowned plastic artist. “At the turn of the new century she co-founded a heterogeneous group of artists called Equipo-Argo, now composed of thirteen women, who work in a warehouse near the city of Valencia, keeping constant contact among themselves and with art vanguards in various spheres. One of the group’s aims is to organize one or two annual exhibitions. Many exhibitions have already been held by this group in our geography.
Technically, for the creation of her paintings she uses powdered pigments; “their tonal breadth is ideal for my paintings, turning the studio into a kind of laboratory of powders and plates where the binders, resins, etc., compose a chaotic universe in which I feel absolutely serene and creative.”
In recent years her artistic production has been showcased in exhibitions, mentions, and awards. Highlights include in 2016, with Equipo-Argo, the group show 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 group show Sala Virgen de la Fuente (Teruel); a group show 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,” a 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” Vila de Benissa (Alicante), for the Festival D’Arts Quart de Poblet (Valencia) exhibition, and for the XIII Desideri Llombarte Painting Prize in Peñarroya de Tastavins (Teruel) in 2016. The following year she is selected by the Fundación Legado Andalusí, itinerating her work nationwide, and she is a finalist in Premi de Pintura Ciutat de Manises (Valencia), selected in Valencia Ciutat Oberta Biennial of the Arts of Valencia. For 2018 her work is selected for the Dances of Alcalá series in the photography prize of the Turística Association Gúdar-Javalambre (Teruel), later winning subsequent editions, and selected in the International Art Contest “José Camarón” of Segorbe.
In 2014 she received the Camarón prize at the Segorbe Art Contest (Castellón), had an individual exhibition with her series Europe in Moments at the Bancaja Segorbe foundation, in 2016 she won the Las Provincias Photographic Marathon in Dénia (Alicante), won the Balearia prize, and earned an honorable mention in the I Eurostars Hotel Real Photography Prize. She is selected and exhibited at the Eleittad Valenciana El Piló Cultural Entity Hall in 2016 and 2023, and, together with Equipo-Argo, one collective at the prestigious Villa Eugenia exhibition hall in Godella in 2018, an exhibition that later moved to the municipal exhibition hall of Mislata.
She is 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 is represented by Galería del Sol, also located in Valencia.
She was awarded the National Heritage Photography Prize by Her Highness 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 esteemed critic LFMM, “her architectural works transcend the photographic plane to be endowed with a surrealist touch that endows them with undeniable value.”

Patxi Guerrero Carot (Professor at Universidad Jaime I) published in various media."