PILAR VILA

Trained at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid in Cuenca.

At the Faculty, she discovers the vast number of ways to express oneself, and upon finishing her studies, she chooses to focus on sculpture, performance, and ready-made art. However, she never stops painting, and her curiosity drives her to travel and explore European art scenes. She travels to Hamburg in 1994. where she connects with young painters from the German city at the Kunsthalle. Later, she travels to the Netherlands, to the city of Enschede, where she exhibits in a small gallery — an experience that allows her to travel throughout the country and gain deeper insight into the artistic circles of the region. contemporary art scene.

It was during one of those journeys that she discovered rural occupation and joined that movement. From then on, art and nature became deeply intertwined in her work. This was the period of her large acrylic enamels, where landscape and nature took center stage. The figures, characters, and various textures serve merely as an excuse to convey the emotions awakened by nature — an experience of reconnection with beauty and a new language in service of timeless, classical themes.

Faithful to her commitment to the natural environment, she arrived in Sot de Ferrer in 2003, where she currently resides. She returned to painting, joining the local artist groups of the Alto Palancia region. Her work evolved toward prioritizing concept and idea over medium, leading her to experiment with various forms of expression, including painting and photography. Together with other fellow artists, she organized the exhibition “Las mujeres pintamos” (“We Women Paint”) with the aim of bringing art closer to the often-forgotten rural world and reclaiming the role of women in art.

It was during this period of organizing exhibitions in rural areas that she began a phase of experimentation with digital media, although she continues to paint so as not to lose the joy of getting her hands dirty, smelling the paint, and working with its ever-fascinating textures. In recent years, she has combined painting with work involving fibers and cork — nearby, natural materials through which she creates artistic installations and designs handcrafted objects.