Chilean - British artist Enrique Azócar.

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.

The process of creating a piece or a body of work is always challenging and exciting since they have elements of risk and fear that stimulates me, and at the same time, it is a game that I want to play. Lines, colour, canvas, stone or paper are the arenas of my explorations with minimal boundaries. With this view of playing, all possible anxiety vanishes before I take action at the earliest stage of a work; but not all my work might reach my expectations. Design, rhythm, proportion, variety, balance, emphasis, movement, harmony, unity, space and luminosity are the elements that in order to reach my goal, these are "windmills" to defeat. I am in a constant battle searching of an ephemeral satisfaction.

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 for reflection applied in a multitude of tiny marks producing a stronger luminosity.

Enrique is currently doing his Master in Fine Art at Northumbria University.

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