The Sketch – Process and Creation - Maria Lorenzo Hernandez

Maria Lorenzo is a teacher in the Municipal School of Drawing and Painting in Torrevieja

Your roving reporter recently visited the little exhibition gallery in the Virgen del Carmen Cultural Centre. I like the gallery a lot because of its manageable size. If you go to the Prado, the National, or the Louvre you have to be something of a vulture to get around a significant part of the Gallery. But the Virgen del Carmen gallery though somewhat less fashionable is perfect if you have twenty minutes or half an hour to kill in Torrevieja.

The current exhibition of sketches by Maria Lorenzo Hernandez emphasises the tenet that sketching is integral to the achieving of creation in art though rarely itself the subject of an exhibition. Maria Lorenzo is a teacher in the Municipal School of Drawing and Painting in Torrevieja, though most of the works were completed when she was a student. She suggests that the sketch is the interface between the creative process and the real world, and also that the human form is always involved in the highest levels of artistic creation. It reminds me of a quotation along the lines “The highest aspiration of study for man, is man himself.” I’m sure that’s wrong so if you know the accurate quotation and source please enlighten me on the contact e-mail address.

Although much of her work seems to involve an anatomical approach to sketching of the human form I personally found the portrait sketches very pleasing and I kept going back to them.

Brian Heard

brian@torrevieja.com

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