Santiago Izquierdo was born in Burgos, Spain, on April 20, 1948. He lived his childhood and adolescence in Spain’s central region, a very extensive area known as Castille.
Castille is a place where the sun shines very brightly and the land is red and rich; where the color yellow takes over the countryside in the summertime and where trees reveal their various shades of color in autumn. This range of color that characterizes Castille’s different seasons marked Izquierdo forever.
Light is one of the key elements in Izquierdo’s painting; a natural, strong light that contributes feeling and emotion to the observation of...
