“If you ask me what is my aim as a painter, the answer is clear, I want to create a perfume that emanates from my work, from the way I am experiencing life, and yet, this is nothing to do with me, it should be a perfume that will belong to all of us. Art should be filled of true emotion connected with our world, not to the past, but to the way we are today. A new kind of emotion is emerging; it is different to the romantic approach to life. In this society of ours, full of horror, greed, fear, uncertainty, and yet beauty, I feel the need to retreat and to come forward at the same time, like in a kind of dance, the dance of life. But the this alone is not enough for the artist's journey, no, we must follow our instincts of going deeper to provide some responses. For me, those responses come from necessity, and here is where art can start growing through exploration, reflection, technical ability and love.  My paintings are not entertainment, nor they seek tested beauty. I paint to find truth beyond technology and the precision of numbers.  I am trying to give form to what I see when I close my eyes. Then, that perfume could emanate and travel throughout the world, touching people, living in people, that is my aim”

Fernando Velazquez is a Spanish painter leaving and working in Dorset, UK. Born in Seville, his work has developed throughout his career into a highly personal language concerned with the power of nature and the imagination, evident in his series “Paintings of the Floating World”, “Through the Veil”, “Cave Paintings of our Time” and recently “Animas” and “In the Beginning” series presented in London. 

He has exhibited individually in London, New York and Madrid and has participated in many collective exhibitions throughout Europe and America, in addition to his presence at numerous international art fairs. He has also collaborated in a number of prestigious events such as “The Ormeley Dinner, The Ecology Trust, The Aspinall Foundation and ‘Tusk Modern Art Auction’ in London. In the last five years his work has been exhibited in Venice, London, Bogota, Milan, Vancouver, Florence and Krakow.

Fernando has received a number of commissions from private and public collections, including the Rosenberg & Kaufman Gallery in New York, for which he produced a monumental piece in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the birth of the iconic American composer, George Crumb, a collaboration with ICE (The International Contemporary Ensemble) at Symphony Space in Manhattan. His work is part of many art collections including Universal Records, London, Hotel Arts in Barcelona and the Steven Rosenberg Gallery in New York.

He has been finalist in numerous national and international competitions, including the Foundation Focus in Seville, the Tribe Prize at Edgar Modern in Bath, the Marshwood Vale Art Awards in Bridport, Dorset amongst others, also winning the Dorchester Open Exhibition Prize and the international Art Prize Artzine in 2018. In 2022 Fernando was included in the publication “Interviews with Artists”, promoting the best of Contemporary Art around the world (https://www.altiba9.com/). He will be exhibiting at the Florence Biennale 2023.