Ana del Castillo - Ama Dablam Himalaya 2

Ama Dablam is a mountain located in the eastern part of the Nepalese Himalaya. The main peak rises to 6812 m, while the western summit reaches 5563 m. It is an imposing and beautiful mountain that many people who visit the area consider the best in the region. The composition centers on the main peak, whose slopes are covered in white snow and blue shadows in various shades with blacks and grays, creating a sense of depth and volume. The artist's technique uses energetic brushstrokes to represent the rocky textures and the icy sparkle of the snow, while earthy tones at the base of the mountain anchor the scene with realism. The work evokes the imposing beauty of high-mountain landscapes. Pigments with acrylics have been used on canvas. The painting does not need to be framed; its sides are painted. The artist attaches a certificate of authenticity, ships the work insured, with tracking number and with maximum speed. Ana del Castillo is a photographer and artist, winner of various awards, who works for different agencies around the world and has exhibited her works in London, Italy and Spain. Economist and multidisciplinary artist (Godella, Valencia. 1963). Professionally she is an economist, engaged in online commerce in recent years, activity that she has postponed to devote herself almost exclusively to traveling, to experimenting as a painter, and to working for different international agencies as a photographer. Her beginnings in photography go back to childhood; she has work published in the ABC newspaper, in publications of the Ministry of Culture, various books, catalogs, or on the bus shelters of Castellón, in addition to various awards and exhibitions in London or Madrid. Her academic training has been several years with photographer Tere Arcos. She finds in Europe, even as globalization advances by leaps and bounds, in each country and its cities, unique characteristics that she tries to capture in her images, both of people she encounters in the street, as well as buildings of all ages, or moments in any location. Her trips to Iceland, Switzerland, South America, Africa, or Norway have influenced her with mountains, architectures, and seas, other of her great subjects both at a pictorial and photographic level. Her dedication to painting came later. She began her artistic training with the artist Álvaro Romero in the nineties, continued with the godellense painter Germá Llorís, then with the painter Fernando Jiménez and with Lucía Peiró i Lloret, a renowned plastic artist. “At the start of the new century she co-founded a heterogeneous group of artists called Equipo-Argo, currently composed of thirteen women, who conduct their activities in a warehouse near the city of Valencia; the group remains in constant contact among themselves and with the artistic vanguards in different spheres. One of the group’s goals is to argue for and carry out one or two annual exhibitions. Many exhibitions have already been held by this group in our geography. Technically, for the creation of her paintings she uses powdered pigments; “their tonal breadth is ideal for my paintings, which turns the workshop into a kind of laboratory of dishes and powders where the binders, resins, etc., compose a chaotic universe where I feel absolutely serene and creative.” In recent years her artistic production has been projected into exhibitions, mentions and awards. Highlights include, in 2016, with Equipo-Argo, the group show at Centre d’Art Taller d’Ivars in Benissa (Alicante); the collective in May at espai.inf, an exhibition space at the Polytechnic University of Valencia; and the collective exhibition Sala Virgen de la Fuente (Teruel); Colectiva at Casa Cultura Rocafort “La Superficie del Círculo”; in 2017, with the same group, Mirada de Dona at La Marina El Puig de Santa María (Valencia), Sala Exposiciones Antiguo Ayuntamiento Bétera (Valencia), Sala Exposiciones Museros (Valencia), Mirada de Dona at Sala Exposiciones La Eliana (Valencia), Paisatge Urbà at Sala Exposiciones Náquera (Valencia); and in 2018 also with Equipo-Argo at Sala Exposiciones Villa Eugenia de Godella (Valencia) with “Abstractus”, collective at Sala Exposiciones Municipal de Mislata (Valencia) and Sala Exposiciones Biblioteca Dénia (Alicante), with “Abstractus”, and a collective at Sala Exposiciones Massamagrell (Valencia) with “Black and White.” She has been selected for the XXXIV Certamen Pintura “Salvador Soria” Vila de Benissa (Alicante), at the exhibition Festival D’Arts Quart de Poblet (Valencia), at the XIII Premio de pintura Desideri Llombarte in Peñarroya de Tastavins (Teruel) in 2016. The following year she is selected by the Fundación Legado Andalusí, touring her work across the country; she is a finalist in Premi de Pintura Ciutat de Manises (Valencia), selected in Valencia Ciutat Oberta Bienal de las Artes de Valencia. For 2018 her work is selected for the series Dances de Alcalá in the photography prize of the Asociación Turística Gúdar-Javalambre (Teruel), wins later editions, and is selected in the International Art Competition “José Camarón” of Segorbe. In 2014 she received the Camarón prize at the Segorbe Art Competition (Castellón), has had a solo show with her series Europe in Instants at the Bancaja Segorbe foundation, in 2016 she won the Las Provincias Photographic Marathon in Dénia (Alicante), won the Balearia prize, and the runners-up prize at the I Eurostars Hotel Real Photography Award. She has been selected and exhibited at the El Piló Cultural Entity’s hall in 2016 and 2023, and in 2018, together with Equipo-Argo, a collective at the prestigious Villa Eugenia exhibition hall in Godella (Valencia), an exhibition later moved to the municipal exhibition hall in Mislata. She was again selected with work exhibited in the José Camarón International Art Contest in Segorbe in 2020, 2023 and 2024. At the end of 2024 she held a group exhibition at Galería Ronda in Valencia, and is represented by Galería del Sol, also located in Valencia. She was awarded the National Heritage photography prize by Her Majesty the Infanta in Madrid in December 2024. She continues to receive numerous accolades for her photographs and paintings, and has several exhibitions on her calendar for the coming months across Spain. According to the prestigious critic LFMM, “her architectural works transcend the photographic plane to be endowed with a surrealist touch that gives them undeniable value.” Patxi Guerrero Carot (Professor at Jaume I University) published in various media.

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