Pensamiento

One does not reach abstraction because he is taken there, it is rather a process that is brewed inside the painter, when the painting is no longer material and becomes something very profound, very spiritual; shapes elevate and you let your hand go to try and reach the unachievable, that work that is no longer material, though the painter, by using matter, if he does not dominate spirituality in his work, matter will continue to be matter and it will not change. In order to transform matter into a work of art, before, we have to make of matter something immaterial… spiritual and then, if possible, try to transform everything surrounding us into something spiritual, that on its turn, we can try and interpret it and reflect it on the virgin canvas, on that canvas that is like the mother that awaits to hold those strokes in her bosom, making them hers, transforming them through colour and shapes, into something that is created from the spirit, though created with matter.

Transforming matter into life, giving life to colour and shape: that is a desire, a dream any painter never wants to wake from. Giving life to matter means that the flower smells, that the wave from the sea wets you and that tragedy makes you cry.

Jorge Rando, Malaga, August 2002