Francisco Hernández Cop (1944) - My Secret Garden

- Oil on board. Inscription on the back.

- When twilight sets fire to the stone walls and the day yields its arms, the Mediterranean garden stages its most secret liturgy. It is the exact moment of botanical succession: as the rose folds its velvet petals, jealous of its own scent, the jasmine awakens from its diurnal lethargy and opens into white constellations, surrendering to the night the intoxicating essence of its fragrances. In this subtle twilight, the air grows dense, almost tangible, imbued with a balsamic elegance where the whisper of the cypress and the freshness of wet earth accompany the nocturnal sovereignty of jasmine, turning darkness into a living perfume that is breathed with the soul.

- Born in 1944 in Los Beatos (Cartagena, Murcia), Francisco Hernández Cop is a Spanish painter, draftsman, and educator whose career forms a firm bridge between academia and lyrical sensibility. He built a long teaching career as a tenured professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid for three decades (1986-2016), combining drawing instruction with a very personal pictorial production.

Strongly linked to the Sierra Minera of La Unión and to his Mediterranean roots, his cultural rooting and engagement with the region earned him in 2017 the prestigious award "Carburo Minero" within the framework of the International Festival of the Cante de las Minas. His aesthetic universe gracefully traverses traditional genres such as portrait, figure study, still life, and landscape. Through oils, pastels, and drawings, Hernández Cop filters reality with an intimate and evocative atmosphere, capturing the light of the southeast and the poetry of everyday moments, as in his subtle scenes of gardens or interiors. His work is part of important Spanish institutions, featuring in the collections of the Congress of Deputies, the Museum of Alto Aragón, the Realist Art Museum of Cuenca, and the Dibujo Museum of the Castle of Larrés, among others.

- Framed image dimensions: 28 x 23 cm / 48 x 43 cm with magnificent framing.

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