Chilean-born, England-based artist Enrique Azócar.

I want my work to have an immediate visual impact and yet to slowly reveal itself to the viewer on other levels. People, water, land, light, together with their charged interaction are the starting points for my new series of paintings.
They unveil themselves through a layered technique of glazes mixing marble dust that captures light by reflection applied by a multitude of tiny marks producing a stronger luminosity.

Drawing was my original expression. I draw a lot but I do not do preparatory studies, as I prefer to resolve everything on the canvas. I know what I want to paint, but have often changed composition and colours because a better idea on the same subject has turned up two days later. My work ends and depends on influences I cannot predict.

above, fragments of the painting "the stork has arrived" (1998) , dedicated to my son Thomas.