When did you start painting?

Oh, it was long time ago, when my mother took me to take some lessons with Manolo Gómez, in Rambla Catalunya Street, in Barcelona. He was a Sevillian painter, fond on the hyperrealism, profound admirer of Antonio López García.

Manolo was slow on walking because had polio on his legs, and also on painting because he wanted to get the touch sensation on the objects he painted, and that used to take long time. He taught me about some colors I had never heard about before, the green gallbladder, the indigo blue, the carmin of garanza or the yellow of Naples . It was a mix of technique and poetry.