A prolific contemporary portraitist, the young Cabellut was inspired by the ubiquitous fresco paintings in her hometown.
She spent four years in classical training before holding her first exhibition at the Town Hall of Masnou, Barcelona at the age of seventeen. At nineteen, she left her native Spain to study at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, Netherlands, which is where she remains today to live and work.
Over the years, Cabellut has developed a unique technique that yields an inimitable quality and texture to her work, painting large-scale portraits incorporating traditional fresco techniques with modern applications of oil paint. She also developed a unique technique for installations and ‘Hybride’ Photography, combining her materials in a 3 dimensional experience.
Statement
If my brushes?
Were not able to speak?
If my feet?
Were not able to take a step forward or back?
To gain perspective on what I see?If in my head
?Confusion and doubt were not reigning
?If I don’t cry?I laugh?
If I was not dazzled by white?
And moved by indigo?
What loneliness?
What loneliness
?I would have with myself?
I work in series, so the process of paintings starts with
finding the concept.?
To sit in a chair and not move until I have the project
in mind?
I am more than a painter, I am a storyteller.
Source:
Website of the artist, 2017
