This work is my impression of Lanzarote, an island of volcanoes, vineyards, and extraordinary light.
I wanted to capture what struck me most about the island: its volcanic earth, terracotta and clay tones, mountains that sometimes resemble a lunar or even Martian landscape, vineyards, flowering cacti, and vivid flashes of green appearing among the almost desert-like terrain.
The work is painted on coarse burlap, and its texture has become part of the painting itself. It echoes the surface of the land — uneven, dry, rough, shaped by volcanic forces.
The piece is deeply inspired by Lanzarote and by César Manrique — his houses built into the lava, his way of combining natural forms with architecture, his use of intense blues, reds, and greens, his pools, and his extraordinary relationship with the island’s landscape.
I wanted to preserve the feeling of Lanzarote in motion: the wind constantly shifting the clouds, the clouds changing the light, and the light transforming the colors of the earth from one moment to the next.
This is not a literal landscape, but rather a memory of the island — its colors, wind, volcanic earth, and the sense of freedom it leaves behind.
