ESTHER SERRANO

Painting , Photography

ABOUT ESTHER

Painter and photographer brought up in Madrid, working in health care. My development as an artist started when I completed a City Lit foundation Art course, and Prof. David Cranswick introduced me to the “old masters’ painting techniques”.

EXHIBITIONS

  • Painting Exhibitions: The Mall Galleries (2014), London, UK; Salon des Refuses (2017), London, UK; Annual exhibitions at Studio Open Days since 2015, N22
  • Photography Exhibitions: Groups exhibitions at Southbank Bargehouse Gallery; at Highgate Lauderdale House , Split Gallery in Croatia and Hornsey Library Crouch End (25th Oct- 5th Nov 2023)
  • Solo photography exhibition “Africa” at Karamel Gallery, 2019.

MY WORK

I enjoy the challenge of copying paintings from the National Gallery in London, as well as painting portraits. I work with raw pigments, with layers and glazes.

I only become passionate about photography in 2015. I am fond of black & white and infrared photography. My images are mainly inspired by light, landscape, nature, wildlife, architecture, patterns and textures. In 2020, I started experimenting with multiple exposures in camera’ and Intentional Camera Movement (ICM), creating impressionistic and abstract images with a lot of textures and colours.

Awards:         Royal Photographic Society Distinction, LRPS, 2023

Publication: Two images published in the 1st edition of European-Chinese Photography Art Yearbook 2023 .