Ana del Castillo - Norway

A tranquilizing landscape of one of my favorite countries, Norway and the Lofoten Islands in winter. The work has just left my studio.
Pigments with acrylics have been used on double-thick canvas and paper. The painting does not need to be framed.
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Ana del Castillo is a photographer and artist, winner of various awards, who works for different agencies around the world, and has exhibited her work 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 she is an economist, dedicated to online commerce in recent years, a activity she has postponed to devote herself almost exclusively to travel, 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 newspaper, in publications of the Ministry of Culture, various books, diverse catalogs, or on the bus shelters of Castellón, in addition to various awards and exhibitions in London or Madrid. Her academic training has been years with photographer Tere Arcos.
She finds in Europe, even as globalization advances by leaps and bounds, in each country and its cities unique characteristics that she tries to capture in her images, both of people she finds on the street, as well as buildings of all ages, or moments anywhere.
Her trips to Iceland, Switzerland, South America, Africa, or Norway have influenced her with their mountains, architectures, and seas, other of her great themes at both painting and photography levels.
Her dedication to painting came later. She began her artistic training with artist Álvaro Romero in the nineties, continued with the Godella 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, currently composed of thirteen women, who carry out their activity in an industrial warehouse near the city of Valencia, the group is constantly in contact with each other and with artistic avant-gardes in various domains. One of the group's aims is to organize one or two annual exhibitions. There have already been many exhibitions by this group across our geography.

Technically, for creating her paintings she uses powdered pigments, “their tonal breadth is ideal for my paintings, which turns the studio into a kind of laboratory of powders and platters where binders, resins, etc., compose a chaotic universe where I feel utterly serene and creative.”
In recent years her artistic production has been showcased in exhibitions, mentions, and prizes. Notable among the early ones in 2016 with Equipo-Argo the collective at Centre d´Art Taller d´Ivars in Benissa (Alicante), the collective May at espai.inf, an exhibition space at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the collective exhibition Sala Virgen de la Fuente (Teruel), Collective at Casa Cultura Rocafort “La Superficie del Círculo”; in 2017, with the same collective, Mirada de Dona at Sala Exposiciones 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 in the XXXIV Painting Contest “Salvador Soria” Vila de Benissa (Alicante), in the Festival D´Arts Quart de Poblet (Valencia) exhibition, in the XIII Painting Prize 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 Biennial of the Arts of Valencia. For 2018 her work is selected for the Dances of Alcalá series in the photography prize of the Tourist Association Gúdar-Javalambre (Teruel), she wins later editions, and selected in the International Art Contest “José Camarón” of Segorbe.
In awards she obtains in 2014 the Camarón prize of the Segorbe Art Contest (Castellón), she exhibits solo with her series Europe in Moments at the Bancaja Segorbe foundation, in 2016 she wins the Las Provincias Photographic Marathon in Dénia (Alicante), wins the Balearia prize, and the runner-up in the I Eurostars Hotel Real Photography Prize. She is selected and exhibits in the room of the Valencian Cultural Entity El Piló in 2016 and 2023, and she carries out together with Equipo-Argo 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 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 performs a collective exhibition at Galería Ronda in Valencia, and is represented by Galería del Sol located in Valencia as well.
They award her the National Patrimonio photography prize by the hands of the Infanta in Madrid in December 2024.
She continues to receive numerous honors for her photographs and paintings, and she has several exhibitions scheduled in the coming months across Spain.
According to the prestigious critic LFMM, “her architectural works transcend the photographic plane to be endowed with a surrealist note that lends them undeniable value.”

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