Greta Chicheri
La Coruña, 1982
Although in general terms it is most likely that the interiorisation of the landscape does not respond to established rules, there is no doubt that both the loneliness and the surprise that assail the outsider play an important role in the process. Something similar must have happened to Greta Chicheri, a native of A Coruña who lived for more than five years in Madrid – where she graduated in Fine Arts at the European University – when in 2005 she arrived, almost by chance, in Fuerteventura and found there the landscape that would lead her to her destiny as a painter. The heat, the wind, the horizon at hand and the sea, another sea although the sea is always the same, are the incentive that the artist had been looking for a long time to give free rein to her creative talent. Soon the first paintings were created on the wood that the sea threw on the beach, dry landscapes seasoned with intense colours, a house, a prickly pear, a dog, the painter describes these early series as follows: ‘these that I paint are barren and unsheltered spaces with the trace of human presence where no one expects it anymore’.
Greta Chicheri