Unperceivable Essence

 

 

Since I discovered the art of Ainhoa Batres, each time she has showed me a new painting,

drawing or design, I’ve always asked myself the same question: 

“Why do they excite me so?”  I’ve seen landscapes, still lives, decorative motifs and I am always amazed by the enormous capacity of her drawings to thrill me. 

 

A landscape of little value for me, interpreted through the eyes and the brush of Ainhoa gives me a feeling of deep emotion; any object, a small branch of a tree, which in itself is nothing remarkable, drawn by her,

truly touches me.

And I keep wondering why.

Ainhoa paints with an obsessive respect, I would even say with love to the model and to the picture. Some artists love the model, that they portray with exquisite fidelity, others love the picture, making it a new reality; Ainhoa loves both the model and picture intensely and surely this is what creates such a tremendous result.

 

Objects that she draws, being easily recognizable, are however different, her hand has given them a delicacy and elegance that touch deeply.

 

No matter how insignificant they would be, like a leaf or a branch; in fact, it is in these cases probably when they are mostly touching, because in her fashion, Ainhoa has provided them with an exquisite organization, a uniqueness that originally they didn’t have.

 

And it’s not only that Ainhoa has translated them into a delicate artistic language, 

it is also that in certain lines and shapes, she has endowed them with pure human feelings.

 

A branch or a leaf is left alone, isolated in the middle of the canvas and yet perfect in form and is hard not to think that these little fragments of reality, so insignificant, interpreted by Ainhoa, transcend their pettiness and acquire a bewildering entity

Somehow these objects have been rehabilitated from their smallness, in these pictures they have been rescued of the superficial look that ignores their non-obvious beauty

It is difficult not to see in the pictures of Ainhoa an artistic claim of the small, a protest against our conventional looks, unable to capture the stunning beauty that is hidden everywhere around us in our everyday reality.

 

So often happens to me that after observing the beauty claimed in the paintings of Ainhoa, I turn my eyes to reality and say to myself: 

“Ainhoa is right, the reality is very beautiful. “

 

I needed to see her drawings, see with her eyes the reality recreated by her hands and discover in the things this so beautiful Unperceivable Essence.