Discover the contemporary work of Azucena

My name is Azucena Fernandez, I am 52 years old, I was born in Mexico. and I passed Much of my life in Asturias, at the age of 28 I moved to the city of Barcelona, later to Madrid, Mallorca, Ganada, etc. And I currently reside in Malaga. I have extensive experience in various techniques; sculpture, ceramics, crafts, leather goods, drawing, painting, etc. ...Applied to various materials; leather, resin, metals, clay, wood, paper, ink, charcoal, oil, acrylic paint, canvas... At the current stage, my work is based on canvas and paper using inks, acrylic, charcoal, metallic pigments, where the texture and composition is based on superimposed and transparent layers, giving priority in my color palette to the reflection of the environment that surrounded my childhood; green as a symbol of nature, brown of the earth, cobalt blue as the Cantabrian Sea, black; the darkness, the unknown, the bowels of the earth, the coal and what it represents in family and social memory. It is worth highlighting for the understanding of my work the inclusion in said palette of metallic pigments, either in a subtle way or in very noticeable brushstrokes, sometimes separately and others mixed with the other colors as codes. subtly encrypted, “based on the alchemy of being“. With life experiences I started I became interested in the world that lives in the shadows, in the spiritual world beyond. of the invisible, conveying messages from other worlds in my works, although since I was a child I showed I gained a lot of interest in these other realities thanks to knowledge inherited from my ancestors. We come from a culture where the encounter with magic was deeply rooted, knowledge that comes from paganism and is involved in the collective heritage thanks to that generational communication. Although I didn't realize it at first, over the years I have discovered that precisely that is the driving force of my artistic work. When I face the blank canvas I don't know what it is. What I am going to find, I have to say that before starting each work I have the habit of doing a meditation, although I also consider that the act of painting in itself It is already a form of meditation, a fact that leads me to enter my unconscious and through that other side, I am referring to those landscapes that are not inspired by reality, especially in those faces that appear and they disappear through a veil and it is the canvas itself. Even though the creative process is very pleasant, I must confess that at times it can be disturbing. My work is an invitation for the viewer to explore their own psyche, showing not only the beauty, but also the darkness that lives within us. “No one becomes enlightened by fantasizing figures of light, but by becoming conscious of their darkness.&rdquo Carl Jung