Diego

I'm an artist who strives to kindle complex emotions through the medium of oil paint. When I paint a scene, my aim is not only to take the viewer on a visual ride, but to evoke the other senses as well. My paintings often weave between different genres such as portraiture, landscape and still life, to create scenes that hint at a narrative. I like to bend and distort reality on canvas, often creating imaginative lighting scenarios and arrangements of characters and elements. I'm known for using a combination of expressive brushwork and meticulous rendering. I often hide little treats for the viewer to find around the painting, be it a character in shadow spying on another, maybe a passage of particularly rich texture, or perhaps a jewel-colored element surrounded by muted colors. I like to render things as exquisitely as I can, and create a gem-like quality in my paintings. I strive to create an ambiguous, albeit tangible atmospheric realism in the work I create. I want to take the viewer to a place where they can experience emotions previously unknown to them.