Premio Combat Prize

STATEMENT
My work is mainly abstract, I would say abstract expressionism. I love painting with oils, they give me many possibilities I do no find in other media. When working with collages on paper or wood I use acrilics, ink, cuttings of photographic work I prepare. These work result in surrealism which I also love! Sometimes I alternate and get inspired by my own different work.
Painting is for me a way to enjoy colour, enjoy the process and compositions I make always have a start in nature, mostly flowers, skyes or the ocean. I do photography and sketches that later on I transform in my paintings.
The series “Reflections” is inspired on duality. We live in a world of polarities: cold-hot, up-down, strong-weak. My art precedes the concept, enjoying the process. Playing with colours and forms is the goal, eventhough there is always a momento of anguish when I do not know where to continue, then the painting itself tells me where to go. A work is finished when I consider that continuing it will change it.
I consider myself heir of Matisse, Cezanne, Miro and their ”painting for pleasure”. I also admire the german expresionism, and Klee and Klimt are dear to me. Installations and contemporary art also inspire me as it is amazing for me the way imagination is endless.
BIOGRAFIA:
Cecilia studied Social Studies and Literature at Universidad Catolica del Peru, Drawing with Cristina Galvez, Watercolors with Juan Pastorelli. She then worked with Leslie Lee, present Director of the Escuela de Bellas Artes del Peru, and Miguel Nieri, professor of the Escuela de Bellas Artes del Peru and now of the Fine Arts Faculty of Universidad Catolica del Peru for more than 15 years.

Cecilia first solo exhibition was in 1998, accumulating up to date six, the second one in 2000 and two in the year 2005, of which one was in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In february 2007 she presented ”El Mar, Las Olas” and in december 2008 ”De Siluetas y Sombrillas”. In August 2010 she presented “Espacios Temporales” y en November 2011 “Metáforas”
Cecilia has also presented many collective exhibitions as from 1993 in Peru, USA, Canada, Belgium, Netherlands, Argentina and Spain

AWARDS
In October 2005 she obtained Second Prize in the Contest “Autum Salon” organized by “Espacio 10 Arte”, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In January 2011 her painting “El Globo Rosado” was finalist in the Contest ArteVida at the Gallery
EME 04, Madrid Spain.
October 2016 Solo exhibit by Isabella Garrucho Fine Art at The Tailored Home, Connecticut
In the period 2015 – to date several paintings where featured by Saatchi Gallery on line

Today Cecilia’s work is in private collections in USA, Colombia, Netherlands, Belgium, Guatemala and Peru.