Barcelona, 1976 Painting

I am Ana Gonzalez, I live in a small town in a beautiful island called Tenerife, Canary Islands, where there is a large volcano, the Teide, which is the highest mountain in Spain. I love anything creative. I have painted on many objects, from furniture, walls, etc. I have worked with many different materials and techniques. Mixed media techniques. I started imitating Picasso's drawings, Gauguin's paintings, etc. Later I decided to devote completely to the painting and to start looking for my own pictorial world, assimilating all the previous influences but centring on developing my own style. When I'm painting, I let go of me intuitively, I do not make preliminary sketches, but I developed the painting, incorporating characters and colors, to me is dictating my subconscious. I paint in a sort of trance, a state of maximum concentration, so that when I finish, then I do not remember the whole process, I've painted before or after. That's where all the feelings that emerge are reflected in my works. Stories of my childhood, my family, all told with a bit of nostalgia. I like to mix old and new. I always like to suggest, not to reveal all the story behind each work so that the viewer completes the work with their own experiences. Most of the time, I do not know the whole story, for me too hide secrets. I like to work fast, and so the work has freshness, spontaneity.