Artospective: Nude Figurative Paintings by Francisco Jose Jimenez.

Breathe 135 x 105 cm Mixed media on canvass.

An Interview with Francisco Jose Jimenez.

Who and where are you from?

My name is Francisco Jose Jimenez and I am from Spain. I've been living in London for 6 years. My studio is based in Wimbledon.

How you got into this?

That was long time ago. When I was a kid I didn't realise I had the skill but once you start to develop some different techniques and you see how the people appreciate your work, it just became my whole life. The style, the colours, the paintings in general...they change with the time. It's an evolution that grows and I always think that devoting my life to it makes me grow as well as a person.

What is your driving force?

Art is everything to me. It's the way I have to express everything I cannot do through words. Since I wake up until I go to bed again in the night, the art is always around me.

What kind of work you do and why?

I would say that my artworks reflect my own vision of the people. It as well express my constant fight to find the meaning of myself in the person I paint. When I finish a piece, my satisfaction can be measure on the success I had reflecting myself in the person in the canvas.

I have always felt attracted by nudity, the flowing lines of the human body and the aura that surrounds people. Knowing people through painting is wonderful, you can reach their most intimate places, even to their consciousness.

When we create that aura between the person and painting all these questions arise, which at the end are beautiful imperfections in search of a meaning. In this moment we forget ourselves, Here the body lines stumble upon thoughts. Traveling between the beauty and the sadness. This is the meaning of my painting.