Painting as a form of inner writing


I am not always sure whether I am remembering or forgetting when I stand before a canvas. Perhaps both happen at the same time — and that uncertainty is where the work begins.

I paint with acrylic, ink, watercolor, and mixed media on canvas and paper. Color is not decoration for me — it is temperature, mood, direction. Yellows and turquoises that dance. Blues that sink inward. Reds that insist.

My paintings are abstract, but they are never without origin. They carry traces of rivers I have known — the Orinoco, the Amazon, the Chama in Mérida. They carry the light of Tenerife, the rhythms of Caracas, the quiet of my Berlin studio.

 

Each work is an original, created over more than twenty years of practice across Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, and Germany.


  

   

"It takes a lot of forgetting to paint this way.
Learning to look at objects as thresholds
between fire and seed
until the light turns into a child that peeps out"

 

Santiago Espinosa

 



A splash of Joy
abstract painting on canvas

mixed media100 x 65 cm (approx. 39.4 x 25.6 in)
2015

In A Splash of Joy, I celebrate a moment of pure joy: a golden path boldly
carves its way through a vibrant sea of deep blue and fresh green. To me,
this canvas captures the instant when joy bursts into everyday life—like a
warm ray of sunlight touching the heart. I invite you to awaken this radiant
spark within yourself.



Triptych 'Elements in Transition'
mixed media painting on paper

each part measures 46 x 32.5 cm
(approx. 18.1 x 12.8 in)

Original abstract triptych painting on paper, featuring a play of colors
and nuances between blue, green, red, yellow, and a balance of warm
and cold tones.

I love painting on paper and working with different materials.
In these pictures, 
I wanted to capture the beginning of an inner process.



Diptych 'The beginning of a Mandala’
mixed media painting on paper 

painting 1 – 42 x 29.6 cm (approx. 16.5 x 11.7 in)
painting 2 – 40.7 x 29.6 cm (approx. 16 x 11.7 in)

Original abstract diptych in modern, vivid colors of blue, red, and yellow.
These paintings are held in bright, lively tones, making them perfectly
suited for vibrant, innovative spaces where they can generate
positive energy.



Transparency series 1-3
set of 3 mixed media paintings on paper

50 x 35 cm (approx. 19.7 x 13.8 in)

In my "Transparency series," I weave together gentle geometric shapes and grids with the free flow of watery blue tones. For me, these layered paintings on paper are like looking through windows of time, where thoughts and emotions softly overlap. With every brushstroke, I invite you to discover the hidden, poetic layers of our inner world.



The Blue Series 1–3

set of three mixed-media
monotype paintings on paper

50 × 35 cm (19.7 × 13.8 in) each

2012

In this Blue Series, I explore the dialogue between spontaneity and intention. Beginning with the unique imprint of a monotype, I continued each composition with vibrant acrylics and deep ink. For me, these works evoke a dance of light and shadow, where warm yellows illuminate expanses of cool blue. I invite you to discover the rhythm of the forms, symbols, and pathways that unfold within them.



Yellow bridge Project
mixed media painting on paper

50 x 46 cm (approx. 19.7 x 18.1 in)
2006

Between orange and fire, a yellow form insists on staying.

I did not plan it — it appeared, the way memory appears: sudden, warm, slightly out of place.

This is the bridge: not the one you cross, but the one that crosses you.

The lines are not drawing. They are listening.



Transeúnte's mission statement
this painting is part of the exhibition

project “ideario de transeúnte”
mixed media painting on paper
29 x 29 cm (approx. 11.4 x 11.4 in)
2006

Every transient passes through — but something always stays behind.

A vessel. A sphere. A form that opens without revealing.

I painted this blue the way a city looks from a train window:
familiar, unreachable, already gone.



Mandala
abstract mixed media painting on paper

29 x 29 cm (approx. 11.4 x 11.4 in)
2006

The circle does not close — it breathes.

Layer by layer, pink into yellow into red, until the center holds something
too small and too essential to name.

A mandala is not drawn. It is remembered.



Monotype Triptych on Paper
original abstract monotype triptych on paper

105 x 50 cm (approx. 41.3 x 19.7 in) total
part 1: 49.8 x 35 cm (approx. 19.6 x 13.8 in)
part 2: 49.8 x 35 cm (approx. 19.6 x 13.8 in)
part 3: 49.8 x 33.5 cm (approx. 19.6 x 13.2 in)

I printed this as one — then cut it into three, because some things only
reveal themselves when they are taken apart.

The panels can be arranged and rearranged: there is no wrong order,
only different conversations.

This is not a triptych. It is a single breath, interrupted.