'Inside the garden' by Luisa Rivera
'Inside the garden'
57 x 76 cm
Watercolour on Paper (100% Cotton Hot Pressed Paper)
2023
£550
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Luisa Rivera (1987). London-based artist originally from Chile. After completing her Fine Arts degree (BFA) in Santiago, Chile, in 2013 she pursued her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (USA) thanks to the support of the Fulbright scholarship and a FONDART grant (Chilean National Fund for the Development of Culture and the Arts). Recent collective exhibitions include In Between/ness (2024, Somers Gallery, London), The Drawing Board (MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis), Tart Factory (2023, Tart Gallery, London), Rituals (2023, Lea Bridge Library Pavilion, London). She has published various illustrated books, including “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Love in the Time of Cholera” (Random House Literature, Spain), both novels by Gabriel García Márquez, as well as editions such as “Stories of Love of Madness and Death” by Horacio Quiroga and “Azul” by Rubén Darío (Editorial Alma, Spain). She is also the author of the book “In the Lighthouse” (Liberalia Ediciones, Chile), for which she won a Colibrí Medal awarded by IBBY Chile in 2020. I work with water-based media on paper, exploring our relationship with the environment through layered interpretations. My practice reflects the tension between our primal connection to the natural world and the ways in which we have become distanced from it, serving as a reflective space to trace these lost connections. Through a figurative language that conveys intimacy, I create evocative scenes where the boundaries between self and environment dissolve. Storytelling is central to my practice. I weave narratives populated predominantly by women and natural motifs, engaging with themes of ecology, feminism, and personal memory, often through the lens of magical realism. My Chilean heritage profoundly informs my work, with folklore, mythology, and biographical memory enriching the narratives I construct. These cultural elements allow me to explore how memory and identity intersect with our evolving relationship with the environment. Blending the personal and the universal, my work reimagines our connection to the natural world, inviting reflection on the stories and symbols that shape our understanding of both.
'Inside the garden'
57 x 76 cm
Watercolour on Paper (100% Cotton Hot Pressed Paper)
2023
£550
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Luisa Rivera (1987). London-based artist originally from Chile. After completing her Fine Arts degree (BFA) in Santiago, Chile, in 2013 she pursued her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (USA) thanks to the support of the Fulbright scholarship and a FONDART grant (Chilean National Fund for the Development of Culture and the Arts). Recent collective exhibitions include In Between/ness (2024, Somers Gallery, London), The Drawing Board (MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis), Tart Factory (2023, Tart Gallery, London), Rituals (2023, Lea Bridge Library Pavilion, London). She has published various illustrated books, including “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Love in the Time of Cholera” (Random House Literature, Spain), both novels by Gabriel García Márquez, as well as editions such as “Stories of Love of Madness and Death” by Horacio Quiroga and “Azul” by Rubén Darío (Editorial Alma, Spain). She is also the author of the book “In the Lighthouse” (Liberalia Ediciones, Chile), for which she won a Colibrí Medal awarded by IBBY Chile in 2020. I work with water-based media on paper, exploring our relationship with the environment through layered interpretations. My practice reflects the tension between our primal connection to the natural world and the ways in which we have become distanced from it, serving as a reflective space to trace these lost connections. Through a figurative language that conveys intimacy, I create evocative scenes where the boundaries between self and environment dissolve. Storytelling is central to my practice. I weave narratives populated predominantly by women and natural motifs, engaging with themes of ecology, feminism, and personal memory, often through the lens of magical realism. My Chilean heritage profoundly informs my work, with folklore, mythology, and biographical memory enriching the narratives I construct. These cultural elements allow me to explore how memory and identity intersect with our evolving relationship with the environment. Blending the personal and the universal, my work reimagines our connection to the natural world, inviting reflection on the stories and symbols that shape our understanding of both.
'Inside the garden'
57 x 76 cm
Watercolour on Paper (100% Cotton Hot Pressed Paper)
2023
£550
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Luisa Rivera (1987). London-based artist originally from Chile. After completing her Fine Arts degree (BFA) in Santiago, Chile, in 2013 she pursued her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (USA) thanks to the support of the Fulbright scholarship and a FONDART grant (Chilean National Fund for the Development of Culture and the Arts). Recent collective exhibitions include In Between/ness (2024, Somers Gallery, London), The Drawing Board (MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis), Tart Factory (2023, Tart Gallery, London), Rituals (2023, Lea Bridge Library Pavilion, London). She has published various illustrated books, including “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Love in the Time of Cholera” (Random House Literature, Spain), both novels by Gabriel García Márquez, as well as editions such as “Stories of Love of Madness and Death” by Horacio Quiroga and “Azul” by Rubén Darío (Editorial Alma, Spain). She is also the author of the book “In the Lighthouse” (Liberalia Ediciones, Chile), for which she won a Colibrí Medal awarded by IBBY Chile in 2020. I work with water-based media on paper, exploring our relationship with the environment through layered interpretations. My practice reflects the tension between our primal connection to the natural world and the ways in which we have become distanced from it, serving as a reflective space to trace these lost connections. Through a figurative language that conveys intimacy, I create evocative scenes where the boundaries between self and environment dissolve. Storytelling is central to my practice. I weave narratives populated predominantly by women and natural motifs, engaging with themes of ecology, feminism, and personal memory, often through the lens of magical realism. My Chilean heritage profoundly informs my work, with folklore, mythology, and biographical memory enriching the narratives I construct. These cultural elements allow me to explore how memory and identity intersect with our evolving relationship with the environment. Blending the personal and the universal, my work reimagines our connection to the natural world, inviting reflection on the stories and symbols that shape our understanding of both.