J. SIMON MATHEU RIERA

Born in Majorca , in his youth he painted with his father (portrait and landscape painter). Having a natural talent for drawing, he takes part in various drawing contests and works out pamphlets and magazines at school.

In 1966 he moves to Barcelona to study engineer. There he really starts creating works influenced by the last period of Picasso, the Barcelona scene and the trends, creations and anxieties of the sixties. Once his studies have been completed he must balance his love for art with his job.

Besides different techniques like drawings with pencil, watercolors, collage, gouaches and oil paintings he has also made iron- wooden- and stone sculptures.

In 2004 he started experimenting with acrylics creating a special effect he calls « acrylic spotting ». This technique which he uses now indiscriminately when realizing figurative, expressionist or abstract paintings gives texture, contrast and vivid and bright colors to all his creations.

Dr. Carlos Gonzalez, art critic of the Real Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando , describes this « spotting » as a new and different technique whose bright colors and texture recalls to the colorful mosaics of Catalan modernism.

Some of his pictures, commissioned or simply made to express impressions, can be found in different parts of the world: like Buenos Aires, The Hague, Leiden, Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia and Palma de Majorca.