LED Paintings

My technique of introducing LED lights into my paintings was born from two impulses that, deep down, are intertwined: my human nature and my artist self. I'm a person who delights in contemplating the world—wandering through life, through nature—is what ignites my spirit to paint. However, I recognize my limitations as a human being, and I know that by focusing solely on the physical representation of objects, I will never be able to transfer to the canvas the sublime exaltation that overcomes me when I contemplate the world. That's why, in this artistic period of my work, I lean toward this style of abstraction.

I aim to strip the painting of all its figurative forms and keep only the essence of each shape. A kind of synesthesia of each object that would normally form part of a figurative painting. What ends up captured on my canvas is the stain of color that represents each figure—the abstraction of a figurative scene taken to its highest expression.

Ideally, the viewer should associate a figure with each color field in the painting and compose the final scene themselves. My color fields are avatars of figures, their placeholders. The LED lights and golden spray stains are the thread that connects the scene—they are active participants.

The purpose of the painting is to serve as a testimony of my desire to represent nature within a contained form. The canvas begins and ends within certain measurements. There is an entire forest, a hurricane, a vortex of emotions, a map of my inner landscape contained within 80cm x 120cm.

Nature is alive, it breathes, it changes. The ultimate quest of all painters is to breathe life into a painting. The LED lights in the painting aim to do just that. The lights move; the painting is alive. It's an animated form hanging on the wall, staring back at you, embodying the idea of a living amalgam of color and matter.

This connects with my second artistic impulse: the visual representation of the soul—a pursuit as old as time.

I seek the most sublime representation of the human soul—of my soul—reflected back at me. A selfie of my gut, my matter, my thoughts, and emotions that shape who I am. This requires brutal honesty with myself and a deeply vulnerable stance to expose my tender inner self to the world.

I'm an artist who scrutinizes the world, eager to keep learning more and more about the secrets of the human soul. In the early years of my career, I could find traces of it in the study of the face and the gaze; my first artistic successes were portraits. As I matured and shed the vanity of youth—so tightly attached to the beauty standards of our time—I embarked on the representation of the soul through abstract forms as the truest form of pictorial expression. I find my quest for beauty within the body and reflected in nature. As Tolle says, "everyone is you pushed out."

This way of portraying the person through abstraction is the most honest way I've found to represent someone in their entirety or in their truest essence. The mere figurative depiction of a character in a painting only reflects one aspect of the complexity of the human being. As Gombrich aptly said, "not even the Mona Lisa could have been smiling all the time."

With this technique, I also express the richness and opulence of the world—there's no need to paint jewels. The LED lights and golden spray paint bring that sense of luxury to the canvas. Jewelry is worn to catch the light, to reflect it onto people's faces. Its ultimate task is to dress the person in light. I discard the jewels and bring light directly to the painting—I go where the jewels only wish they could.

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If you're seeking a bespoke canvas painting with LED light, I offer commissioned work tailored to your space and your emotional landscape. My custom LED paintings are a collaboration between your ideas and my creative vision — resulting in a singular Light Artwork that reflects your inner pulses.