They are Expression, movement and strength. Trees breaking free from the earth, horizons of vertical lines, suns, blades of grass, landscapes of space; they are summers and winters, forests, days and nights… Forms are stirred into motion on the canvas, colors grow more intense, and the inner landscapes of the painter emerge…
Jorge Rando
In nature lie the roots of creation, and in love, the roots of our soul.
Jorge Rando
Why “Pintarradas”?
… Because I call this way of expressing myself my “Pintarradas”.
… Because something new is born from the old.
… Because without dawn … there is no new beginning.
… Because I needed a new word for a new way of painting.
Jorge Rando
The painter is a poet of expression who ventures down the rugged yet wondrous path of painting, allowing himself to be guided by the desire to create; to create from within, with the freedom that comes from wholehearted surrender, committed to what he paints and what he thinks.
Jorge Rando
Back in the 1960s, I spent some time living alongside 'Clochards' in the city of Cologne, Germany. I shared the earth and sky with them; I laughed and lamented with them, listened to their reflections and desires… I learned the dignity of freedom.
Jorge Rando, 2018
Despite the dirt that surrounds us,
despite the darkness that suffocates us,
despite everything…
new dawns will arise.
Jorge Rando
I want you, landscape, to be the axis, not the wheel; the protagonist, not the supporting player. In short, I want to paint you.
Jorge Rando
When I observe a herd of horses, a pack of dogs, a sounder of pigs, or a flock of sheep, they evoke sensations in me which, together with those my mind has absorbed over time—some beautiful, others tragic—are what I, as a painter, wish to capture on the canvas.
Jorge Rando
…and God created color. Before I was born, before my ancestors were born, from the very beginning, before painters were born, God created color.
He needed it to create beauty…
Jorge Rando
…The contemplation and study of her work, the social and political context in which it was created, as well as her own personal tragedy, led me to reflect once again on love in creation. Pain alone cannot create; there must be love to transform that pain into hope.
Jorge Rando
