As Juan builds layers of paint, his painting materials take on a life of their own and begin to speak for themselves. Transparency, vibrations between colours, the plasticity of a brushstroke - these qualities become the subjects of his work as much as the scene he's working to depict. The result is an expressive and energetic selection of landscape prints that oscillate between figuration and abstraction, creating a constant tension between the two.
For Juan, painting involves the arrangement of colours on a surface in order to capture light, space and the relationship between the two. It's a free-thinking approach to image-making that helps Juan to capture the vitality of the natural world that surrounds him and the elusive elements that shape it.