BIOGRAPHY

María José Durá Pau was born in Castalla (Alicante), España. She studied Biological Sciences At the University of Valencia. Later she graduated in Fine Arts at the school of Valencia. She worked as a designer for four years in Durpe S.L., Combining her word with the painting (that has been her passion since she was a child). In 1996, she decided to dedicate exclusively to the painting.

EXHIBITIONS

_1997, individual exhibition in “culture center” in Castalla (Alicante)

_1998, individual exhibition in “azul tierra”, in Alicante.

_1998, individual exhibition in Villa d'Este Gallery.

_1998, collective exhibition in Thema Gallery, Valencia.

_June 1999, collective exhibition in Thema Gallery, Valencia.

_November 1999, individual exhibition in Thema Gallery, Valencia.

_July 2000, individual exhibition in Villa d'Este, Altea (Alicante)

_September 2000, collective exhibition in Thema Gallery, Valencia.

_February 2001, collective exhibition in Thema Gallery, Valencia.

_September 2002, collective exhibition in Maragall Gallery, Barcelona.

_November 2002, collective exhibition in Thema Gallery, Valencia.

_July 2003, collective exhibition in Maragall Gallery, Barcelona.

_December 2003, collective exhibition in Thema Gallery, Valencia.

_April 2004, collective exhibition in Agora Gallery, New York.

_May 2004, collective exhibition in Thema Gallery, Valencia.

_February 2005 .individual exhibition in Maliarka gallery, Alicante

_ October 2005, individual exhibition in Lebesi gallery, Palma de Mallorca.

 

ARTIST STATEMENT

Since I started painting, I seek to express especially states of mind, emotions. I try to do a painting that transmits strongly some value to the one who observes it.

Though my painting is figurative, I am always investigating new techniques. For it, I use all kinds of products, as putties, glazes, sackings, glass fibre, acrylic oil, etc…and different supports as wood and linen for the result to be satisfactory. The colour has to be necessarily in total harmony with what I have wanted to transmit. So, my work might be summarized as the harmony among colour, texture and expressive force.