Hijack Landscape Paintings

« I believe painting is all about gesture and flow. Painting is nowness. » I wanted to represent the magnificent of the oak trees ,how they grow as island in the landscape and creat...

Pau Escat is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Barcelona. His work investigates color and light in contact with materials, specifically the visual effect that this generates. His interest in observing these processes comes from two fields that have always been in his life: nature and jewelry. At first, one would say that they belong to opposing fields -the natural and the intervened, the wild and the domesticated, the living and the stony- but for the artist, they constitute the basis of the same way of looking and creating. Nature, especially landscapes and atmospheres, allows him to express both the physical space, where effects such as color and light occur, and the intimate space, where color and light are associated with emotions. In this sense, the artist is interested in the pictorial tradition that, from a particular appreciation of landscape and nature, is a precursor of abstraction. In particular, his work focuses on the Dutch landscape painters of the seventeenth century, from whom he takes the bipartite composition of the painting and the characteristic vibration of the stormy skies. The impressionists have also been essential in his way of looking at nature, for their pictorial work of atmospheres that already brings them close to abstraction. In the artworks of the artist, a certain state of stillness, contemplation, and silence in front of natural phenomena is essential. His proposal is precisely interested in these moments dedicated to seeing for the pleasure of seeing, without haste or objective to fulfill. Thus, her paintings retain this atmospheric weightlessness, the result of contemplation, which gives a livid character to the set of elements. Jewelry, on the other hand, represents for him the creative moment par excellence. After contemplation comes the action, which already reflects the artist's experience on the canvas. Pau Escat belongs to a family that has been dedicated to jewelry for more than a century. He was trained and worked in this profession, designing pieces that introduced him to the craftsmanship of materials, textures, and light. In addition, the art of creating jewelry provided him with a knowledge of symbolism that he recognizes as central to his artistic conception. His work gathers the experience of nature and works it to give it form and channel emotion, just as in jewelry the material becomes something more thanks to the jeweler. Like the symbol, the artwork transmits and communicates an idea, but admits a game between the subjective and the universal meanings. For the artist, this work with visual concepts is the basis of artistic creation. Always, of course, looking for the mystery rather than the explicit, through the abstract language that partially veils the symbol. For this reason, his works do not have a specific title either, building a diaphanous space for the viewer to interpret from his reception. Both nature and jewelry also show how objects live, and how they change over time. Just as organic materials transform themselves, so do inorganic ones. The artist has always been fascinated by the effect that time has on canvases, painting surfaces, and colors. The golds that predominate in his work acquire different aspects according to the time of day and modify their tonalities depending on the light that bathes them. In the same way, the works and their materials, as happens with the jewels, vary, without any possible foresight, over time: spatial and temporal randomness, as well as meticulous artistic work. EXHIBITIONS 2017 Naturcanisme, Oblyon Art Space. Barcelona, Spain 2019 Bachs Gallery, Barcelona, Spain. H10 Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain Gallery 104, New York, USA 2020 Círculo Ecuestre, Barcelona, Spain Exposición colectiva Galería Jorge Alcolea, Barcelona, Spain. RA, Bachs Gallery, Barcelona, Spain Oxímoron Arthub Mahón, Menorca, Spain Gallery 104, New York, USA 2021 Metamorfosis, Arte Contemporáneo, Formentera, Spain. Hotel Majestic, Barcelona, Spain "Oxímoron" Arthub Mahón Menorca, Spain Tilisitt Gallery, Oporto, Portugal 2022 Tilisitt Gallery, Oporto, Portugal Something About Us, Casa Estudio Granados...

Pau Escat is an asbtract artist originating from Barcelona, Spain, born in 1984. His passion for art has led him to develop a prominent career in the field of contemporary art. His a...

Jane Booth "Fleeting Dream" Spray Paint, Watercolor Crayons, Powdered Graphite, Acrylic Paint on Raw Canvas 61.25 x 54 in. "There are two polarities that I gravitate towards in my w...

Pau Escat is an asbtract artist originating from Barcelona, Spain, born in 1984. His passion for art has led him to develop a prominent career in the field of contemporary art. His a...

Jane Booth "Mozambique" Acrylic, Spray Paint, House Paint, Watercolor Crayons on Raw Canvas 65 x 64 in. "There are two polarities that I gravitate towards in my work: one is primord...

Pau Escat is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Barcelona. His work investigates color and light in contact with materials, specifically the visual effect that this generat...

Pau Escat is an asbtract artist originating from Barcelona, Spain, born in 1984. His passion for art has led him to develop a prominent career in the field of contemporary art. His a...

Jane Booth "Pearlman's Inner World" Acrylic, Watercolor Crayon, Pencil, Spray Paint on Raw Canvas 76 x 71 in. "There are two polarities that I gravitate towards in my work: one is p...

Jane Booth "Flea Market" Spray Paint, Watercolor Crayons, Powdered Graphite, Acrylic Paint on Raw Canvas 61.25 x 54 in. "There are two polarities that I gravitate towards in my work...

Pau Escat is an asbtract artist originating from Barcelona, Spain, born in 1984. His passion for art has led him to develop a prominent career in the field of contemporary art. His a...

Pau Escat is an asbtract artist originating from Barcelona, Spain, born in 1984. His passion for art has led him to develop a prominent career in the field of contemporary art. His a...