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Monroy
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Development and Technique
As a Mexican living in Britain for the past twenty years, I am able to draw on my cultural roots and new cultural stimuli to invigorate my working processes. I have continually exhibited throughout this time and my work has developed from a painter who sculpts to now predominately a sculptor who also paints. I find both practices inform the other, symbiotically creating the working rhythm that ignites the work.
Musical instruments, wood and metal are the main
materials used, having an intrinsic natural beauty
and strong connections to the earth.
In common with painting, these materials
can be manipulated through colour, thickness,
texture and warmth, and additionally the
surfaces can be caressed or violated
through polishing or chiselling.
I like to contrast the qualities of wood by
combining it with other elements.
The process of construction is vital to
how the final form is perceived.
Guillermo Monroy
t: 07817 328429
Photograph by Susanna Suovalkama