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The visual artist Ana Llamas, was born in Córdoba city, on October 1st 1968.
She currently lives in the city of Villa Allende, Córdoba.
Since she was a child she began to experience pleasant sensations with drawing and painting. With time she discovered her friendship with brushes, paintbrushes, oils, palette knives and even a rag have accompanied her for more than fifteen years in her studio. The day she opened her first tube of oil paint, she felt such a pleasant smell that it made the dreams she had had since she was a child appear, without knowing that it would accompany her all her life.
The year 2007 meant an important change in her life, she discovered painting as a form of personal fulfilment. She started in the plastic arts in a self-taught way, in non-formal institutions such as workshops and art clinics with different teachers.
Her first teacher was the artist Nancy Cabanillas, who not only trained her technically but also guided her to immerse herself in the world of painting and her passion for it.
She then studied decorative painting at the art institute Cise and obtained the title of Specialist in Painting.
She continued her training in the workshops of the artist Fabiana Rossi, where she delved into themes such as mixed techniques and the poetics of shadows, among others. She studied printmaking with the artist Alejandra Tolosa.
She has also attended specific seminars on oil painting, asphalt painting seminar and composition of abstract work with the artist Mary Scarafia. She currently attends the workshop of the artist Azul Iturre specialising in oil portraits and the workshop of Fabiana Rossi in abstract painting.
The pandemic and its consequent isolation had a favourable influence on his artistic activity. The loneliness and anguish experienced during those months were inspirational and fruitful for her production.
She likes to apply on her canvases painting materials such as asphalt paint, polyurethane paint, water-based and synthetic varnishes, as well as oils and acrylics.
Her works are characterised by a strong use of materials.
When he started painting he did it with a realistic style, but abstraction and surrealism is his current style, with a mixed technique achieved by superposition and rejection of materials, in general his colour palette is monochromatic in earth tones.
Art makes me feel the freedom I need, it is the expression of the deepest thoughts by the simplest way, pushing the imagination captured on a canvas.
