Award-winning contemporary artist Pepe Hidalgo lives and works in BC, Canada. His artistic career started in Madrid where he, as a teenager, frequented the Museo del Prado. Pepe has exhibited extensively and the awards he has won go back as far as 1985.
His inspiration originates from everyday life, steeped in his knowledge of astrology, mythology, history, and life experiences.
Hidalgo’s somewhat abstract style is narrative in the figurative genre. Not related to realism, yet created from his imagination, and memory of his sense of reality.
His paintings achieve strength through the glazes or thin opaque or semi-opaque layers he applies. He will continue with this layering technique until he achieves a greater sensation of space.
Standing in front of each painting one encounters a moment in time, created within the world depicted on the canvas. Each of my paintings is representational and portrays a world with a unique space-time that is definitely separate from the one the viewer primarily inhabits.
My art invokes the ineffable nature of time and the equally mysterious way that the past can push its way forward into the present moment.
