Consuelo Hernández

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Consuelo Hernández

GIJON COFEE I-Madrid. Óleo-tabla, 122 x 90 cm. 2015.

GIJÓN COFFE II. Óleo-tabla,
122 x 90 cm. 2015.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I keep three key memories of my childhood sharp in my memory:
The first, the cover of the book “Ramillete de mujeres universales”, by AntonioJ. Onieva, education inspector, journalist and writer.
The book,a set of biographies of famous women in history and that my mother kept jealously on the
shelf in the dining room, became one of my favorite readings during childhood.

The second, the emotion i felt when i saw the large box of watercolors that,just after six years of age,
i found one kings morning next to the little shoe placed on the balcony of my house.
The third, the impact experienced at the age of seven by the paintings of the great Spanish masters: Goya, Velázquez, El Greco, Murillo...hanging on the walls of the Prado Museum and with which I immediately fell in love, holding tightly to my father's hand.

Then i discovered that art is beauty.And so i have gone throughout my life looking for beauty,
which has come from different places, cities, and people; those whom i have been close to, within my environment,
or who have been the product of strong experiences.

“Every man is born with the germ of the work he has to accomplish”, said J.Russell Lowell, poet and literary critic.
In this way, on the path that we begin as soon as we are born, we start from the innate need to express feelings,
affections and vital needs in order to move towards communication with others in our inner world, a need that in artists is configured
as motivation basic in their daily work. Fascination, observation, immersion in reality,
the first phase of a whole creative process, of a dialogue established with the object, with the person,
with the building, with the street, with nature, in which from the first
brushstroke begins to materialize the inner world of the artist.

I paint the old way. I prepare my canvases or tables, i sketch the idea of the work,
i delimit and stain with brushes or with a spatula the parts in light and in shadow... And, layer by layer,
i elaborate, define, transform, erase... It does not matter time... Bach, Chopin, Handel, Schubert, Mahler,
accompany me...And, although it is difficult for me to conclude a work -the process, the movement,
are implicit in the human being himself and also in artistic creation- there
comes a day when i observe that this little pictorial autobiography is already
expression the idea, the result of that initial fascination.

Thus the work becomes independent from the artist and establishes its own relationship with others,
to continue its permanence in time.

HÉLÈNA, Oil-panel,
120 x 80 cm. 2015

SILVIA,
Oil-panel, 120 x 80 cm. 2015

EVE
Oil - Panel, 125 x 85 cm, 2018

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Tornavacas (Cáceres), Spain, Consuelo Hernández is a painter by birth.
As José María Bermejo wrote in his first exhibition in Plasencia: “The sensitivity of this painter
has perceived, from the cradle the changing wonder of a light of cherry blossoms, red vineyards,
green fields of fresh meadows, night snow and bluish cadences of mountain range”.
Consuelo Hernandez's career is two fold:

a solid training in the fields of Art and Literature. Graduated in Philology she made teaching compatible (as a professor at the Institute) and Art
(as a painter) At present and for years her dedication is exclusively to Art.
Currently considered among the most representative painter of contemporary Spanish Realism
and included in the web “Extremeños ilustres”, Plastic Arts section,
Consuelo Hernández found her pictorial style in the current of Realism, although her technique
and themes have varied throughout over the years, at the same time as her own vital evolution
and that of the environment that surrounds her.

It is worth highlighting the six of Tangier (1997-2003), a period in which his paintings
are inspired by the decadent architecture of the international era,and during which he made different
exhibitions in Moroccan cities such as Casablanca, Rabat, Tetouan, Fez, and especially Tangier, exhibitions
that had a great impact among the public and the Moroccan Media.Painter with an extensive list of exhibitions, her work
has been exhibited at international art fairs in Chicago, Hong Kong, Singapore, Paris, The Hague,Madrid, and at international festival.
And in numerous Spanish cities.In July 2012 he presented a selection of works within the
framework of the international Present'Art Festival Contemporary Art.

His international exhibitions in China continued in 2013 at the Bridge gallery in Beijing and in Shenzhen,
at the Wison Art Museum and at the Global Harbor in Shanghai.

As well as in the Gallery-M in Vienna.
Its recent solo exhibitions at the Palacio de la Salina in Salamanca, Spain,
in the Palace of the Island of Cáceres, Spain; the Museum of the city of Móstoles,
Spain; and in the prestigious space of the Madrid City Council, in August 2020.A significant number of works by
Consuelo Hernández are part of private collections in Morocco, Spain, China, France, Italy, United States,
Switzerland, and of public institutions in Spain and other countries.