With my work I try to create a channel through which I can capture everything that I find admirable, inspiring and that in a natural way creates in me an almost uncontrollable stimulus and/or impulse to take it to paper or canvas.

Transforming poison into something good and making lemonade out of lemons are some of the mantras that are always present throughout the creative process of my work.

Generally, it is pop culture that opens doors for me and serves as a starting point of inspiration to then go further, investigate and create a compendium of ideas that, although they may seem random at first, are full of symbolism and end up having a common thread.

Within pop culture, it is above all the world of music, film, fashion and photography that has opened doors for me, from Madonna, Beyonce, Steven Klein, Baptiste Mondino, Cindy Sherman to Alexander Mcqueen.

My first copies are reproductions of photographs and/or creations of these characters and even some stills from a film with a special meaning for me, being this a clear example that imitation is the greatest sign of admiration.

In the last year I have shown a special interest and admiration for the work of surrealist and contemporary women painters, from the generation of ‘27, those without hats, to Leonora Carrington, Georgia Okeffe, Dorothea Tanning and even Tamara di Lempicka, Frida Kahlo and Seraphine.

The main common point in the work is undoubtedly the search for balance through contrast. This can be seen reflected in the technique where he combines the black and white of charcoal with the vivid colours of pastel and/or oil, to the surrealist theme in which he constantly plays with the dreamlike and the real, death with life, self-destruction with overcoming, the more introspective and/or disturbing side with the more naïve and optimistic side.

Jorge de Luis Yanes
(DeLuisArt)