My paintings aim to move people, freeing their minds to see the world afresh. They are not entertainment, nor they seek tested beauty. I paint to find truth beyond technology and the precision of numbers.
Fernando Velázquez is a self-taught Spanish painter whose distinctive voice in contemporary art shows as a unique vision that echoes the great art of the past whilst creating a new universe of visual responses to our time.
Born in Seville, and now living and working in Dorset, Fernando has developed his practice throughout his career into a highly personal language concerned with the power of nature and the imagination. Evident in his series “Paintings of the Floating World”, “Through the Veil”, “Cave Paintings of our Time” and recently “Flight to Ades”” and “New Land” series presented here in the UK.
He has exhibited individually in London, New York and Madrid, participating in many collective exhibitions throughout Europe and America, in addition to his presence at international art fairs. He has also collaborated in a number of prestigious events, including “The Ormeley Dinner, The Ecology Trust, The Aspinall Foundation and ‘Tusk Modern Art Auction’ in London. In the last few years his work has been exhibited in Venice, London, Bogota, Milan, Florence and Berlin.
Fernando has received a number of commissions from private and public collections, including the Rosenberg & Kaufman Gallery in New York, for which he produced a monumental piece in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the birth of the iconic American composer, George Crumb, a collaboration with ICE (The International Contemporary Ensemble) at Symphony Space in Manhattan. His work is part of many art collections including Universal Records, London, Hotel Arts in Barcelona and the Steven Rosenberg Gallery in New York.
He has been finalist in national and international competitions, such as the Foundation Focus in Seville, the Tribe Prize at Edgar Modern in Bath, the Marshwood Vale Art Awards in Bridport, Dorset amongst others, also winning the Dorchester Open Exhibition Prize and the international Art Prize Artzine in 2018. In 2022 Fernando was included in the publication “Interviews with Artists”, promoting the best of Contemporary Art around the world. He exhibited at the Florence Biennale 2023 and with the prestigious London Group. In 2024 his work was part of the Discerning Eye in London and in 2025, he was finalist at the Artists Prize in Berlin.
We are delighted to welcome him to the gallery and it is with anticipation that we await his solo show in February 2026.