Local artist María Rosa Torres presents her watercolor work for the first time 'Aigua de colors', an exhibition full of light and color carried out in the last 6 years.
Although Torres' passion has always been watercolor painting, for many years he left it in the background. "I needed time to study and practice but I had other priorities that would not let me dedicate it," Torres explains. Now, with more calm, and away from what has been his profession, teaching, he has been able to exhibit for the first time at home.
In addition to lack of time, María Rosa admits that there was not much information about this technique either. "I was looking in books and I signed up for painting classes years ago but they only gave oil and what I wanted was watercolor. Until, finally, about 7 years ago there began to be much more content on the Internet," she tells us excitedly.
Confinement was the perfect time to study: "now I feel like I've really started to study and practice more. I'm learning new techniques, comparing the work of great acuerelists, and spending more time on it."
A tale of two
The local artist explains to us how she works her works: "I like to say that I paint in company, the water and I. The water goes along a path and I follow it. That implies a great difficulty because you can get a good result or not."
In his work 'Aigua de colors' we find such emblematic landscapes of Xàbia as the Montgo, Barraca, Caleta or the Church of St. Bartholomew. A journey through the most beautiful corners of the municipality, interspersed with other flower-themed paintings or even abstract paintings. 33 works full of light and color that he has been painting in the last 6 years.
Passion for photography and painting
But the work of the local artist does not begin when she begins to paint, as she tells us "I have always liked photography very much. Wherever I go I take my camera, I take the snapshots that I like the most and then I choose the photo that I'm going to paint".
Although now professionally with his first exhibition, Torres does not forget why he started and why he is going to continue painting: "I do it because I like it, because it relaxes me, if I'm wrong, I'll start over. I want to paint for fun and never stop. of learning".
The work, with a positive, conciliatory and welcoming air, shows us the passion of Maria Rosa Torres for painting and will be open to the public until February 28 at the Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum Soler Blasco.
