Pedro de la Felipa.
The light and colour of the Serra de Tramuntana.

The reason why.

The work of an artist is usually determined by the forces which somehow carve his creative evolution.

Moved by a rare need, some sort of curiosity and by those happenings with which life sometimes tempts us, I registered in my hometown’s school of Fine Arts, where fortune brought me to D. Manuel Santaella, a drawing and painting professor. By that time, he was already a medium-aged man, not too tall, with white hair and a soft and enticing voice. I still remember how his eyes squinted while his long, pale, and freckled hands sketched in the air the progress of the apprentice’s design.

Patient and exacting, he guided my first steps while endeavoring to instill in me four basic ideas:

  1. Be honest with yourself and choose your influences after your abilities.
  2. Work your artistic sense towards perfection.
  3. Keep a certain prophetic vision: “You must see the painting before staining the canvas”, I remember him repeating over and over.
  4. Every trace, every brush stroke, every color and every shape should attain perfect harmony.

And despite my struggles in living by these concepts, despite my limitations, despite the fact that behind every milestone there is a new feat and that time passes too fast, I still put in every work the same dream applied by a boy who once stood in front of an easel to draw a bunch of plaster flowers.

But life goes on and influences change at every turn.

I was neither the first, nor will I be the last, artist who looks up in awe to the light and color of the land I am treading. I know the Serra de Tramuntana quite well. From Andratx to Formentor, I have walked it, I have sensed it, I have scented it, I have climbed its peaks, I have gone down its torrents, I have penetrated its caves, I have gazed down the cliffs, I lost myself in the trails and shortcuts and so, step by step, just as the young adolescent surrenders to the charms of the gaze, the fragrance or the hips of a beautiful woman, I have been thrilled by its wonderful landscape.

On account of this, I take the opportunity that Kairoi Art offers me, to contribute with my humble homage to the World Heritage Site that UNESCO recognized in the Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana.

Pedro de la Felipa

Junio 2022

PEDRO DE LA FELIPA

THE LIGHT AND COLOR OF THE SERRA DE TRAMUNTANA

THE REASON WHY

The work of an artist is usually determined by the forces which somehow carve his creative evolution.

Moved by a rare need, some sort of curiosity and by those happenings with which life sometimes tempts us, I registered in my hometown’s school of Fine Arts, where fortune brought me to D. Manuel Santaella, a drawing and painting professor. By that time, he was already a medium-aged man, not too tall, with white hair and a soft and enticing voice. I still remember how his eyes squinted while his long, pale, and freckled hands sketched in the air the progress of the apprentice’s design.

Patient and exacting, he guided my first steps while endeavoring to instill in me four basic ideas:

  1. Be honest with yourself and choose your influences after your abilities.
  2. Work your artistic sense towards perfection.
  3. Keep a certain prophetic vision: “You must see the painting before staining the canvas”, I remember him repeating over and over.
  4. Every trace, every brush stroke, every color and every shape should attain perfect harmony.

And despite my struggles in living by these concepts, despite my limitations, despite the fact that behind every milestone there is a new feat and that time passes too fast, I still put in every work the same dream applied by a boy who once stood in front of an easel to draw a bunch of plaster flowers.

But life goes on and influences change at every turn.

I was neither the first, nor will I be the last, artist who looks up in awe to the light and color of the land I am treading. I know the Serra de Tramuntana quite well. From Andratx to Formentor, I have walked it, I have sensed it, I have scented it, I have climbed its peaks, I have gone down its torrents, I have penetrated its caves, I have gazed down the cliffs, I lost myself in the trails and shortcuts and so, step by step, just as the young adolescent surrenders to the charms of the gaze, the fragrance or the hips of a beautiful woman, I have been thrilled by its wonderful landscape.

On account of this, I take the opportunity that Kairoi Art offers me, to contribute with my humble homage to the World Heritage Site that UNESCO recognized in the Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana.

Pedro de la Felipa

Junio 2022