Miguel Campillo Velasco: light and poetry

The work of painter Miguel Campillo Velasco stirs a deep feeling of beauty and reflection. His work springs from the sensibility of those artists who carry everything inside and who only need to rummage around in themselves to create art.

There are painters who earn distinction over time, others who find their style sooner. Some have been students, others have taught themselves. Either way, the artist who manages to invent and reach a voice of his own acquires a unique value. Miguel Campillo Velasco pulls it off, and from there he develops a pictorial universe that he fills with moments of poetry.

The subject matter of his work is varied and unmistakably his. Qualities he achieves thanks to his interest in light and to his rich, striking colour palette. Both give his creations the highest degree of originality. They range from evocative landscapes to film noir stills, recreated with a certain humorous tone. All of it steeped in an emotion that radiates a lively, spontaneous optimism.

His style drinks from Impressionism. From its loose, short brushstroke. From its inspiration in nature. But above all, from the way light falls across his compositions. Lighting takes the leading role and, through it, Miguel Campillo Velasco shapes the meaning of each painting and gives sense to what he sets down in every stroke. His handling of light results in a very suggestive play of contrasts. That contrast of light and shadow heightens the volume and the sense of reality and even lets him give form to the psychological undercurrent his artworks hold.

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