Begoña Garma Iriarte (1944) - Bodegón

Oil on canvas 46 x 55 cm. signed in the lower left corner. The frame is not included in the sale, but it will be sent as a gift.

Begoña Garma Iriarte (Bilbao 1944), born in Bilbao, began her artistic studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, having Antonio López, Villaseñor, Guijarro among others as her teachers, from whom she obtained the basic knowledge that has served as the starting point and foundation as a future painter.

She completed her studies in 1971, beginning her teaching career while alternating with exhibitions throughout the Spanish territory.

Begoña Garma Iriarte develops her work based on lived experiences and emotional matters; the artwork expressed from vital forces, with the knowledge provided to her at the time by the Faculty of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, and her own effort; a painting drawn from the fibers of her culture and complemented by impulses that lead to a concise narrative, while also being memory. Garma Iriarte, born in Bilbao, became known in Basque artistic circles in the first half of the seventies, participating in numerous exhibitions across Spanish geography; freshly graduated in painting and drawing and having accumulated experience through contact with masters who showed her what art can teach: the antecedents, the contributions of many, the language of forms, of figures, and certain canons that, as a starting point, are essential knowledge. It was like possessing the tool that her profession demanded; the dexterity she was acquiring, the discourse that already appeared as a scheme, but that made sense.

She has held exhibitions in cities such as Bilbao, Barcelona, Madrid, Tarragona, Valladolid, Pamplona, Málaga, or New York.