Ana del Castillo - Patagonia

My visit to the Glaciers National Park in Patagonia, Argentina left a deep mark on me and has inspired many of my paintings. Pigments with acrylics on double-thick canvas and on paper have been used. The painting does not need to be framed. The accompanying artist certifies 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.

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 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 published work in the ABC newspaper, in publications of the Ministry of Culture, various books, catalogs, or on the bus shelters in Castellón, in addition to several awards and exhibitions in London or Madrid. Her academic training has spanned several years with photographer Tere Arcos.
She finds in Europe, even as globalization advances by leaps and bounds, unique characteristics in each country and its cities, which she tries to capture in her images, both of people she meets on the street, and of buildings of all ages, or moments in any location.
Her trips to Iceland, Switzerland, South America, Africa or Norway have influenced her with their mountains, architectures, and seas, other of her great themes both painterly and photographic.
Her dedication to painting came later. She began her artistic training with the artist Álvaro Romero in the nineties, continued with the godellense painter Germá Llorís, then with the 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 composed of thirteen women, who operate in an industrial warehouse near the city of Valencia; the group remains in constant contact with each other and with avant-garde artists in various fields. One of the group’s aims is to organize one or two annual exhibitions. The group has organized many exhibitions across our geography.

Technically, for the creation of her paintings she uses powdered pigments; “their tonal range is ideal for my paintings, 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 moments include in 2016, with Equipo-Argo, the group show at Centre d’Art Taller d’Ivars in Benissa (Alicante), the collective May at espai.inf, a space for exhibitions at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and the collective exhibition Sala Virgen de la Fuente (Teruel); with the same group in 2017, 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 La Eliana (Valencia), Paisatje Urbá at Sala Exposiciones Náquera (Valencia); and in 2018 again with Equipo-Argo at Villa Eugenia Gallery in 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” Vila de Benissa (Alicante), in the exhibition Festival D’Arts Quart de Poblet (Valencia), in the XIII Desideri Llombarte Painting Prize in Peñarroya de Tastavins (Teruel) in 2016. The following year she is selected by the Legado Andalusí Foundation, 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 Gúdar-Javalambre Tourism Association (Teruel), she wins subsequent editions, and is selected in the International Art Contest “José Camarón” of Segorbe.
In 2014 she won the Camarón prize at the Segorbe Art Contest (Castellón), has had a solo 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 a runner-up in the I Eurostars Hotel Real Photography Prize. She has been selected and exhibited at the Valencian Cultural Entity El Piló in 2016 and 2023, and together with Equipo-Argo organized a collective show at the prestigious Godella exhibition space Villa Eugenia in 2018, later moving to the municipal exhibition hall in Mislata.
She was again selected with work exhibited in the International Art Competition José Camarón in Segorbe in 2020, 2023 and 2024.
At the end of 2024 she held a collective exhibition at 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 accolades for her photographs and paintings, and 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 surreal touch that gives her unmistakable value.”

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