F. Pavón: immediate inspiration

A free painting, with no limits, one that spills over the edges of the support and spreads out with no beginning and no end. This is what F. Pavón (Madrid, 1980) works on in his artwork.

This young painter from Madrid grew up drawing. His passion for art came out when he was still a child and, ever since, he has been exploring and experimenting with the forms that best let him bring his inner world outside. Forms he tends to find by leaving behind the restrictions of figurative language and escaping the rules that reality imposes. So, in his creations, chance and accident take on another dimension. It's about tearing down any obstacle standing in the way of a fluid expression of immediate inspiration. About not putting up with laws or disciplines, but obeying the emotional demands of one's own being.

That is why F. Pavón gives freedom the leading role and lets it take charge of his compositions. He allows the painting to flow from the rhythm dictated by the action itself, his ultimate aim being to turn his feelings and concerns into matter. In this way he dives into abstraction and practises gestural painting, feeding on the legacy of American expressionism. He draws inspiration above all from Jackson Pollock and his groundbreaking mark-making, through which he released onto his canvases expressions of great drama and fierce virulence.

Working with acrylics and enamels reinforces this expressiveness and also allows him to achieve a more forceful finish. Colour is the medium through which he channels his creative freedom. Sometimes very bright, pure colours prevail, other times stonier tones, with more natural shades. As a result, his painting always presents contrasts that are highly suggestive and of great visual impact.