Many
years ago, so many that I can't remember, I discovered a tool called
pencil, and since then I haven't been able to take it away
from me...
My
love of painting and drawing began so soon that I can't remember at all!! I only know that it took an important part of my
childhood, my adolescence and my entire life. It was a constant
which set by itself the path. The need of creating is innate in the
human being, and it looks for its own way of escape. However, in our
society, creating is not always allowed. People value other things,
over all in our first years of life. I think that what children need
the most is just CREATING.
These
natural steps, never forced nor focused in a quick or effective
learning, lead me to one an another field. They were linked to the
passion for many things, as cinema, mountain or even cemetery
walks... with all those things which the creating act had some kind
of connexion with.
I
began with portrait, going through cartoon, cheramic design, comic
and child illustration, till finishing in the world of illustration,
where I stopped, by the moment... Among all of them I have to say
that I got the same pleasure, what is, for me, the very best reason
of this journey. And there's a lot to discover left...
The
important thing isn't only the graphic, phisic or palpable result,
but I'd even talk about mental health, something whick we usually
forget... Happiness, the life development. Maybe it seems that we're
talking about psychology... but they're both the same thing, because
Art is emotion...
I
don't really take into account neither firms, critics nor
intellectual, because this is not the language of Art. Art speaks
the language of heart, not prejudices nor complexes; the language of
soul, where all the ways are possible, where there aren't ties nor
rules, where everything is okay.
ARANTZA SESTAYO
