What you can achieve in painting thanks to your own effort and what is given to us… for the effort carried out to achieve the supreme work of art.
    
It is a gift that the finished work has a life of its own, not only to express itself but also to model its forms and…why not? To correct the painter himself; because an artist realizing a painting always undergoes a process which in principle starts from the feelings he perceives from everything that surrounds us and of what we are immersed in, either material or spiritual, and all those perceptions we interiorize them to later let them out and express them in the canvas.

In order to reach a state in which the artist has been awarded that grace of the work being the one presented to the eyes of the “lookers” and the one communicating directly with them, leaving some nuances, adding some others, in order to reach here, I repeat, the artist must relinquish from “everything” and let himself be led as an instrument to execute the work. Only in that way will the gift be granted, and not to him but to the finished work, stemming from his brushes. That is when it will have reached a dimension, the supreme dimension of painting, never forgetting that it is a gift and not an achievement.


Jorge Rando, Malaga, January 2009