Biography

Amelia García Escoda (Barcelona, 1968). Painter and sculptor, co-founder of El Alfar Art-Terra S.L.

I began my personal artistic career in 2006, working with textural art and oil on various supports. Since 2018 I have devoted myself exclusively to my artistic practice, developing a visual language of my own through marine and spatial abstraction.

My work, almost always large in format, is marked by a sensitivity toward the very act of creating. I interpret every formal aspect from my own vision, engaging my whole body in the process and turning the viewer’s visual experience into a discovery. My pieces bring together expressionist gestures and the traces of hands and fingers that invite the viewer to pause and look: a reflection on the importance of a calm, conscious presence.

I am currently represented by Bertrand Epaud (international), Galería María Porto and Galería David Bardía (Madrid) and Perry Kish / Art Vibes (Palma de Mallorca).

Expanded Oceans

My work has its origin in an important moment in my life: at the age of five, after the death of my grandmother, I plunged into the sea and discovered a certainty that has stayed with me ever since. In dialogue with the invisible, I sensed the existence of a primal light that precedes matter. That ancestral force became my compass and my root.

My childhood was not easy, but that experience in the sea gave me the certainty that everything and everyone is sea. Living and working in Atapuerca — the cradle of humanity — I understood that my seas are not simply landscapes; they are expanded genealogies: spaces where life recognizes itself before biological time, where we all belong to one connected, infinite universe.

We spend nine months in the womb in water and salt, and that origin shapes us: the sea as the origin of life, interpreted from the depths of the soul, is my current project. My home in the Sierra de Atapuerca helps me bring both ideas together.

My painting, installations and thinking do not aim to be viewed as images; they are experiences that demand physical presence. A photograph is never enough. The pictorial voice that rises from my seas cries out from the silence of a material life that tried to silence me: it is an invitation to immerse yourself in spaces of love, truth and beauty.

My goal is to expand this light — not as an aesthetic object, but as a place where the human and the transcendent recognize one another.

My seas cannot be reduced to a single image. In a photograph, they appear as combinations of blue light and depth; in person, standing before a two-metre canvas, the experience is different: the viewer is confronted with their own inner light and an intimate truth.

This power comes from the way I create them: with brute force, striking the supports, projecting my body onto the surface. The material retains my fingerprints, my hands, fragments of skin. Every painting carries bio-signatures, unrepeatable marks that record the energy with which it was made.

The result is an enveloping pictorial space that acts as a mirror: it shows not only the sea outside, but also the inner sea of the viewer. The painting becomes a living territory, crossed by light, gesture and presence.

I sometimes fragment large-format works, dividing the surface into autonomous pieces. Each fragment retains the essence of the whole and, in dispersing, expands the pictorial ocean toward new audiences and spaces, making it more accessible without losing its force.

I have also developed a collection of high-quality giclée digigraphs, which function as limited editions and allow my work to circulate in wider circles while retaining the chromatic fidelity and power of the original.