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Keith Linwood Stover - Curator
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The Cyber Art Show
"Bringing the Museum to You"
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
“I am inspired by my own travels. Places and people offer me new scenarios and feelings to pour into my painting. Europe, USA, Asia, all cultures suggest diversity, to which I want to be the eye witness. On the other hand, art is a lens that translates the outside world for me to understand it and connect to humanity.
My way to achieve this is either paint on location, or take notes and draw sketches when I travel. I strive to work by memory, which requires a deeper observation; I select only what really reso-nates within. If I use my own photos I draw an edited version of the subject. Then I decide my own color arrangement, according to my mood and pre-mix a limited number of colors on my palette. At this point the brushwork should be (or at least appear) the easiest and most effortless. In other words, the painting should paint itself!
Ultimately I want the viewer to get lost in a timeless story. It's my highest reward. And a bet every single time.”
Feature Artist Bio
Gallery #658
April 25, 2018
Twelve Pieces by Contemporary Artist
Adrián Marmolejo Clarhed (Born 1989)
 Adrián Marmolejo Clarhed - Afternoon Walk Around Málaga |  Adrián Marmolejo Clarhed - Granada Under the Rain |  Adrián Marmolejo Clarhed - Battlements Street Jaén |
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 Adrián Marmolejo Clarhed - Speed. Leuven, Belgium |  Adrián Marmolejo Clarhed - Light and Shadow in Pinos Genil, Granada |  Adrián Marmolejo Clarhed - Puerta Real, Granada |
 Adrián Marmolejo Clarhed - Zuheros, Córdoba |  Adrián Marmolejo Clarhed - Street Market in Arriate, Málaga |  Adrián Marmolejo Clarhed - Street in Cijuela, Granada |
 Adrián Marmolejo Clarhed - Albaicín |  Adrián Marmolejo Clarhed - Lisbon Again |  Adrián Marmolejo Clarhed - The Mountains of Man |
- Image of the Day -
"Afternoon Walk Around Málaga"
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By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the first of two 12-piece exhibitions of works by Spanish painter
Adrián Marmolejo Clarhed (born 1989 in Granada, Spain).
Adrián started painting and drawing when he was seven, as a pupil of the Belgian artist Annette Deletaille (awarded with the Janssens portrait award in 1975), who taught him strong bases on perspective and composition that he tries to apply in every work. She also transmitted to him the importance of painting directly from the surrounding environment, capturing the feeling and mood of every moment with strength and spontaneity.
Adrián has been part of the group ‘Los jóvenes pintores de Coín’, and did his first solo exhibition at the age of 16 in Malaga. He graduated later as an architect in 2016. Now, he combines his investigation in landscape and art in the University of Granada with his artistic work, going through a great variety of techniques: starting with pastel, then oils and acrylics and discovering watercolor later, technique that he thinks takes the most out of his personality, since everything is visible about the procedure and there is no comeback.
As a painter, he has won over 30 prizes in fast-painting contests and also other awards, including the 1st Prize of the BBVA Veterans Painting Contest in 2017. For three years Adrián has been teaching a course which explores fast drawing on location in Granada.
He is part of the Andalusian Watercolour Society, where he also gives lessons, and he plays an active role in the Urban Sketchers Group.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
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