About

Biography

Sol Felpeto (1990) is a multicultural artist born in Venezuela. She spent her childhood and adolescence between Buenos Aires-Madrid and sporadically living in other countries with her family. In Argentina she began her studies in veterinary medicine school but after a few years she decided to follow her creative rush and at the age of 21 she moved for good to Spain and studied Fashion and Creative Direction at European Institute of Design (IED).

Those four years of creative studies led to develop herself as an illustrator and painter within her own style a mixture of humour, color, animals and creative writing. She graduated in June 2016 and immediately participated in her first exhibition in with other artists of the new generation. Based in Madrid she works with galleries and exhibits her work in Europe, America and Asia.

Statement

Over the years, I have developed two different lines of work, yet they are united by the same vibrancy of color, storytelling, and humor. I undoubtedly live in a kind of duality as an artist, where I allow myself to explore my more refined, perfectionist, elegant, and mysterious side—through which I tell more personal stories, with a very much polished techniqhe and play with cubism and surrealism language.

At the same time, I embrace another side of myself that is more mischievous, unpredictable, and spontaneous, where I reinterpret existing stories in my own way, with humor and irony. On these pieces I work with loose and expressive brushstrokes combined with the hand-drawn line of illustration on canvas.

This duality I carry is the same one I see in cats—those fascinating beings I have chosen as the main characters to tell these stories across most of my canvases. I define my work as a show that wants to entertain the audience, inviting to observ and interact with the piece. Once someone is caught by the painting I hope that person can see beyond the aesthetic and find the way to the core of the story and sometimes hidden message.