Teresa Lapayese

Teresa Lapayese was born in Madrid (1966). She began her apprenticeship at the School of Applied Arts, where she studied Volume Techniques, graduating in 1988. Between 1990 and 1995 she studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid, obtaining the scholarship for the Chair of Landscape in Ayllón, the same year she finished her studies. Realist art defines his vocation for painting. This lived, recreated and painted reality includes urban corners, interiors, human figures, still lifes and still lifes, the latter two being the subjects she has worked on most extensively. Being a realist painter of her time, she considers her still life and still life paintings as another link in the vast Spanish pictorial tradition of this genre. In her own words: In the midst of the chaos that surrounded her, she always felt the need to order and recreate her world according to her sensibility: to select, place, compose… To paint the objects close to her and establish their harmonies of colour, tones, shapes, spaces, contrasts, textures, dialogues of light and shade. The subject matter of her paintings are simple, everyday objects that relate to each other in a pictorial space like actors in a play, compositions created according to her aesthetic parameters of balance and order… Her work clearly defines her as a detailed and meticulous artist, charged with an exacerbated refinement and craftsmanship, in which light becomes her great ally, becoming the undisputed protagonist of her paintings.