Art and Illusion are the keys to my work. I believe that we are all surrounded by a supernatural world of creatures and living forms. They co-habit with us, they influence our thoughts, feelings and actions and are present in the most important moments of our life. Sometimes we notice these energies with our minds, other times we can sense them with our spirit and even see them with our physical eyes. My passion is to make visible this invisible world to your eyes.

As a visual artist, I started lessons to be a fine art painter at an early age but I soon realized it was not my cup of tea. I was never really appealed by the idea of becoming a professional fine art painter. During the early 70’s in Spain, you painted landscapes and still life or abstract paintings. At 6, I was mostly interested in becoming a comic artist or a cartoon drawer.

Later, as a teenager, I discovered the work by Brian Froud, Patrick Woodroffe and Roger Dean. They changed my life! It gave me a completely new scope and opened me up to a wonderful universe of possibilities. Ever since, I decided to to investigate and put a world of my own together.

In 1987, I started working as a designer and illustrator in a graphic design studio and, at the same time, I started working as a freelance artist. Ever since, my art stars have always been army of grotesque characters and diverse situations that are the result of a collection of curious personal experiences throughout the years: I knew the bohemian life of Madrid in the 80’s and met the most diverse artists and peculiar people in tiny attics and ‘tertulia cafes’; I traveled by myself along the woods, mountains, caves, and coasts of Spain and filled my bag with stories and anecdotes; I took part in surrealistic experimental sessions to stimulate the imagination hosted by reputed Spanish Children’s literature authors; I lived in a Volkswagen van for six months and traveled around France, England and Scotland, selling my sculptures and etched engravings of fantastic creatures in street markets… Then I decided it was time to sit at the drawing board and start putting all this on paper.

During the 90’s, I worked in numerous art and music related projects in Madrid and London. In 2001, I started the web design firm Intuitive Designs along with my wife Naomi Niles.

Today, I work as a freelance artist developing different projects including art, illustration, sculpting, character design and storytelling. Most of these projects are oriented towards bringing to life my world of Art & Illusion. I see myself as a humble Illusionist of Art. I enjoy decoding the invisible world from different realities and giving it shape. It may be called imagination, fantasy, dreams, collective unconscious… whatever! I only know it’s real, it’s here, it’s now and I love to share it with you.

My latest commissioned work is a set of artistic illustrations for the forthcoming vinyl and CD album of British legendary singer Judy Dyble of Fairport Convention’s fame. Besides that, I’m working in several compilation projects for the editorial world book comprising of illustrations and storytelling of mysterious and magical characters and preparing future exhibitions in the US Pacific Northwest.

I offer my services as a freelance artist for:

• Character design
• Illustration of imagination, fantasy and mystery books for all audiences.
• Publicity, commercial and editorial illustration.
• Art exhibitions.

Please contact me by email or by phone at:
(360) 356-1097