ANSELM KIEFEL, ART IN BLOOM, GETTING INSPIRED WITH FLOWERS

 Hi everyone! 

How are you? How's it going? I'm doing well, here a little slow and cloudy, so when the sun comes out I'm really happy.

Today I want to share my inspiration with you, since I went to the St. Louis Museum to see the Art in Bloom presentation and Anselm Kiefer's enormous paintings.

There was no shortage of inspiration with the floral arrangements designed based on pieces like paintings and objects that are part of the museum's collection. I was so happy surrounded by so many flowers and paintings because they're some of my favorite things!

I also want to take another close look at Anselm Kiefer's work "Becoming the Sea," a German painter and sculptor whose work is impressive in terms of size and style.

After the tour, Valentina and I went to draw and watercolor while we ate some snacks and enjoyed the weather and the artistic introspection we had just experienced.

My next paintings will be inspired in flowers, eyes and wings. My main idea was born because my love gave me some beautiful roses (flowers), we saw an amazing sunset (eyes), and I thought to paint all the key elements that I will explain eventually as my painting progress.

Also we saw some huge trunks that were tore down due a tornado last year, and I could not avoid to see them as part of a natural and beautiful installation.

I filmed a short video about the botanical show and the paintings.

BECOMING, THE BLUE HORSE THAT CELEBRATES THE NEW ERA OF 2026.

 Hola gente bonita!

Happy day and end of February :)

Okay friends, I'm about to bombard you with photos I took of my painting and the process, so get comfortable.

I wanted to paint a blue horse with a composition that flows from left to right, creating a sense of movement and transformation.

The horse is rendered in deep ultramarines and indigos, with subtle highlights that sculpt its muscular form. Its mane streams backward in long, fluid strokes, dissolving into wind and light. The background is alive with motion, soft, circular brushstrokes radiate outward. This painting has around 604 squares.

I wanted to include geometric squares that fragment across the left side of the horse's body. These squares varying in size and opacity float and scatter like pixels or pieces of memory. They gradually dissolve as they move leftward, as if something is breaking apart or being released. On the right side, the horse appears more whole, more defined, more complete like the form sharpens with instinct like past and future.

This horse also inspired by the Year of the Horse—represents strength, independence, vitality, and unstoppable forward drive. But this is not just about power; it is about evolution.

The squares on the left symbolize fragments of the past, old versions of myself, past experiences, memories, patterns that are dissolving. They are not destroyed; they are simply transforming, pixelating into light. The fact that they appear geometric suggests structure, logic, perhaps even the frameworks I once lived by. As they scatter, I move beyond them.

The right side, the more complete horse, represents my own becoming. It is focused intentional, and integrated. It shows a version of me that you have gathered all those fragments and moved through them.

It could feel like a moment of a new start more than a culmination, a point where fragmentation and wholeness meet.

It's about leaving the past and rising from it.

This piece feels like transformation in motion with powerful forward movement leaving behind what no longer defines me and stepping fully into who I am becoming.

It's like me running toward my future, whole.

This painting is available HERE