Begoña Lafuente

Biography
Begoña Lafuente, (Spain, 1969) is a pictorial, graphic and multimedia artist; Now-a-days she develops her main creations from her studio next to the North Sea in the Netherlands.

Her career is rooted in graphic design developed in Madrid in the early 90s, at a key moment for this discipline when it reached the range of artistic expression within and outside the field of corporate image in Spain. Begoña intertwines her classical and artistic learning as a graduate in Fine Arts with the latest representation trends in a constant search and broadens her experience as a graphic designer, art director and illustrator for different companies in corporate identity and advertising.

In 2009 she moved her residence to the Netherlands. Here she interacts with local and international artists from different fields and integrates in her art a new reality that she fuses in her paintings with lessons from the Spanish masters.

Her work involves different techniques such as painting, collage, drawing, photography, scanography, and monoprints.

Begoña studies the human being as a symbol of expression of being; the search of emotional and visual tension is a constant in her creations. The use of thematic contrasts, of color, of biological forms versus geometric shapes, all representations of an ever-changing nature will create that emotion. Her portfolio also incorporates recognizable forms from the great masters of art history from a contemporary perspective.

She often participates in local and international art fairs and exhibitions and her work can be found in private collections throughout Europe and in the United States of America.

Artist Statement

“I explore the essence of ART: I am intrigued by the motifs of the works that endure over time, and those that fall into oblivion.
I live art as a timeless conversation where not everything is said, where the essential is diluted in a whisper.
As an observer in a museum, I wonder-The meanings that I do not find, are at the same time, the ones that initially confused me, arouse my interest and in the end enrich me with the discovery. The experience makes the piece always accompany me because in a certain way I become an artist also of that apparently unfinished art.
That is what I finally intend when I create my art: I want you to be an active part of my living work.
The meaning behind my art will be a "just for your eyes" and is left in your hands. So what do you want to contemplate?

Country Netherlands

Website www.begolafuente.art