ISSUE 3 . MAY 2017

Interview
Guillermo Lorca
Tell me about your background. Where did
your life as an artist begin?
It all started in my childhood if one observed
my behavior was evident that someday would
be an artist. I tended to be immersed in my
thoughts but always doing manual and creative
things. In adolescence, I dedicated my time
more to the sport than to other pastimes. An
injury to my knee gave me some free time. I
remember that there was an image of a Christ
with an interesting perspective that I wanted
to copy. Then I got excited and drew a lot, the
idea of ​dedicating myself to art began to prowl
around my head.
Can you talk a little about your formative
years as an artist?
I took classes with different teachers, but never
more than a couple of months. They were
very useful anyway. Later I went to study art
but much of the time I spent painting in my
workshop, trying to learn the techniques of the
great masters. An excellent book by Velázquez
helped me a lot to learn. It had natural size and
very good resolution of his pictures, always had
it on hand to see how he solved the problem of
painting an eye, skin, etc. I never finished the
art school, I had many disagreements with the
teachers, there was not a good understanding.
A while later I spent a season where Odd
Nerdrum where I could see how he managed to
give that characteristic expressive force in his
paintings.
Another important part of my training was
psychological therapy. It helped me to release
many fears, to handle my feelings, to know me
and others with more wisdom. I think it affected
for the good in my creative process.
What motivates you as an artist?
Being able to communicate things that I am
not able to move to words. Make a beautiful
object of all this tangle of feelings, that if I do
not, they would be lost forever, devoured by the
implacable passage of time.
The act of creating, in general, is tremendously
motivating, as is the value that people give to
your things.
Was creativity a part of your childhood?
Definitely. I used to spend a lot of hours
imagining fantasies of all kinds, playing and I
loved to draw. I was a dinosaur fan.
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