Ana del Castillo - Patagonia

My visit to the Glaciers National Park in Patagonia, Argentina, left a deep mark on me and has been a source of inspiration for many of my paintings.
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, works for different agencies around the world, has exhibited her works in London, Italy and Spain.

Economist and multidisciplinary artist (Godella, Valencia. 1963). Professionally she is an economist, engaged in online commerce in recent years, a activity she has postponed to dedicate 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 been published in the ABC newspaper, in publications of the Ministry of Culture, various books, catalogs, or on the buses’ advertising panels in Castellón, in addition to various awards and exhibitions in London or Madrid. Her academic training has been for several years with photographer Tere Arcos.
She finds in Europe, even as globalization advances in leaps and bounds, in every 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 of all ages, or moments in any place.
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 at the pictorial and photographic level.
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 named Equipo-Argo, now consisting of thirteen women, who practice their activity in a warehouse near the city of Valencia, the group is in constant contact with each other and with artistic avant-gardes in different fields. One of the group’s purposes is to argue for and carry out one or two annual exhibitions. There have already been many exhibitions by this group across our geography.
Technically, for the elaboration of her paintings she uses powder pigments; “their tonal breadth is ideal for my paintings, which turns the studio into a kind of laboratory of dishes and powders in which the binders, resins, etc., compose a chaotic universe where I feel absolutely serene and creative.”
In recent years her artistic production has been projected in exhibitions, mentions and awards. Notable among the early ones in 2016 with Equipo-Argo the collective at the Centre d’Art Taller d’Ivars in Benissa (Alicante), the collective in May at espai.inf, a space of exhibition 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 in Sala Exposiciones La Marina El Puig de Santa María (Valencia), Sala Exposiciones Antiguo Ayuntamiento Bétera (Valencia), Sala Exposiciones Museros (Valencia), Mirada de Dona in Sala Exposiciones La Eliana (Valencia), Paisatge Urbà in Sala Exposiciones Náquera (Valencia); and in 2018 also with Equipo-Argo in Sala Exposiciones Villa Eugenia de Godella (Valencia) with “Abstractus”, collective Sala Exposiciones Municipal de Mislata (Valencia) and Sala Exposiciones Biblioteca Dénia (Alicante), with “Abstractus”, and collective in 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 Premio de pintura Desideri Llombarte in Peñarroya de Tastavins (Teruel) in 2016. The following year she is selected by the Fundación Legado Andalusí, itinerating 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 of Alcalá series in the photography prize of the Gúdar-Javalambre Tourist Association (Teruel), wins later editions, and selected in the International Art Contest “José Camarón” of Segorbe.
In awards she obtained in 2014 the Camarón prize of the Segorbe Art Contest (Castellón), she has exhibited individually with her series Europa en Instantes at the Bancaja Segorbe Foundation, in 2016 she won the Marathón Fotográfico Las Provincias in Dénia (Alicante), won the Balearia prize, and the runners-up in the I Eurostars Hotel Real Photography Prize. She is selected and exhibits at the Valencian Cultural Entity El Piló in 2016 and 2023, and carries out together with Equipo-Argo a 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 holds a collective exhibition at Galería Ronda in Valencia, and is represented by Galería del Sol, also located in Valencia.
They award her the National Heritage photography prize by the hands of the Infanta in Madrid in December 2024.
She continues to receive numerous accolades 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 surrealist touch that gives her undeniable value.”

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