ANA BRÍGIDA
ANA BRÍGIDA
Los Llanos de Aridane, Isla de La Palma, 1959
Her basic alternative education in two: technological (drawing, design) and artistic (fine arts) allowed her to acquire technical knowledge about drawing and handling perspective, completing it in a self-taught way.
Starting from modernity and with her own style (which goes from an impressionist realism to an almost hyperrealism) Ana Brígida looks towards an essential landscape, that of her island, La Palma. Her favorite themes (ecological) are focused on the creation of an endemic-paradisiacal nature.
In nature she captures the atmospheric effects of light and its incidence on the landscape and through juxtaposed and slightly blended patches of color she elaborates the creation. Using oil paint in large and small canvas formats.
In the specific case of Ana Brígida, the use of small brushstrokes of pure colors that are mixed or separated in an imprecise way on the canvas (very detailed) and with a very high relief, makes one think of a pointillist behavior, although she does not define it as such. It is more tonal than essentially colorful and (with a faculty of direct communication), it provokes emotional sensations in the viewer.
In the artist’s words: with my work I do intend something, it is reflection and appreciation for the island.