Ana del Castillo - The big wave XL

Ana Del Castillo Ibarrola's paintings capture the essence of a coastal landscape with a vibrant palette. The sea, in intense blues and turquoise, churns with foamy waves breaking on the shore. The ethereal and luminous sky features white glazes that suggest a humid atmosphere with showers. The sand, in ochre and brown tones, provides an earthy texture that balances the fluidity of the water and the air.
I have used powdered pigments and acrylics, with washes, palette and brushwork, a culmination of techniques that result in a unique finish.
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Economist and multidisciplinary artist (Godella, Valencia. 1963). Professionally she is an economist, dedicated to online commerce in recent years, activity that she has deferred 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 her childhood; she has work published in the ABC daily, in publications of the Ministry of Culture, various books, catalogs, or on the billboards of buses in Castellón, in addition to several awards and exhibitions in London or Madrid. Her academic training has been several years with photographer Tere Arcos.
She finds in Europe, even though globalization advances by 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 location.
Her trips to Iceland, Switzerland, South America, Africa or Norway have influenced her with mountains, architectures, and seas, other of her great themes both at the painting and photography level.
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 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 made up of thirteen women, who operate in a warehouse near the city of Valencia; the group remains in constant contact among themselves, and with the artistic vanguards in different spheres. One of the group’s aims is to plan and realize one or two annual exhibitions. There have already been many exhibitions by this group across our geography.
Technically, for the creation of her paintings she uses powdered pigments; “their tonal breadth is ideal for my paintings, which turns the workshop into something like a laboratory of plates and powders where the binders, resins, etc., form 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 early achievements include 2016 with Equipo-Argo in the group show at Centre d'Art Taller d'Ivars in Benissa (Alicante), the May 2016 group show at espai.inf, an exhibition space at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and the collective exhibition Sala Virgen de la Fuente (Teruel); a group show at Casa de Cultura Rocafort “La Superficie del Círculo”; in 2017, with the same collective, Mirada de Dona at Sala Exposicions 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 Exposicions 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 for the XXXIV Painting Contest “Salvador Soria” Vila de Benissa (Alicante), in the Festival D’Arts Quart de Poblet (Valencia) exhibition, in the XIII Desideri Llombarte Painting Prize in Peñarroya de Tastavins (Teruel) in 2016. The following year she is selected by the Fundación Legado Andalusí, touring her work nationwide, she is a finalist in Premi de Pintura Ciutat de Manises (Valencia), selected in Valencia Ciutat Oberta Bienal de les Arts de Valencia. For 2018 her work is selected for the Dances of Alcalá series in the photography prize of the Turística Association Gúdar-Javalambre (Teruel), wins subsequent editions, and selected in the International Art Contest “José Camarón” of Segorbe.
In 2014 she earned the Camarón prize at the Segorbe Art Contest (Castellón), she exhibited solo with her series Europe in Moments at the Bancaja Foundation Segorbe, in 2016 she won the Las Provincias Photographic Marathon in Dénia (Alicante), won the Balearia prize, and the runner-up in the I Eurostars Hotel Real Photography Prize. She is selected and exhibited at the Entidad Cultural Valenciana El Piló in 2016 and 2023, and, 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 works exhibited in the José Camarón International Art Contest in Segorbe in 2020, 2023 and 2024.
At the end of 2024 she carried out a collective exhibition at Galería Ronda in Valencia, and is represented by Galería del Sol located in Valencia as well.
She was awarded the National Heritage photography prize by 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 surreal touch that gives them undeniable value.”

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

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