Reflection seven

Painting is not just looking at or contemplating. To paint is to live, and to live in all its fullness. Painting is an intellectual, emotional, thoughtful and sensory effort, where painters starkly show us their intimacy and vital reflections. But the painter, sometimes invites us to be ourselves, the viewers, who will join them along that way, on that search. Sometimes it makes us think, and at other times it makes us feel, and sometimes it makes us the protagonists and part of the work, and introduces us, along with the shapes, textures, colours and light, in the painting as part of it.Belén Puyo does all of this in the Reflejos (Reflections) series, inviting us to this most intimate and hidden world, turning us into the leading figures of her work. Without reflection, there is no work, and each reflection will be different. She confronts us with subtle and elegant landscapes, she opens windows without light so that we can find our own clarity. She proposes to reflect on space and time in clean and precise shapes and lines. She teaches us how, from consistency, simplicity, honesty, concern and reflection an artwork evolves, born on paper to end up being a mirror in which we reflect ourselves and a metaphor for our times, where the protagonist is moved to the viewer.”Jesús María Ramírez