Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Juan Bernal. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Alright, Juan thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you talk to us about how you learned to do what you do?

I am a self taught artist, never had a painting class, but have read and studied a lot, visiting art galleries and museums, visiting the old masters who are my real techers. The secret is to work a lot, work every day, to develop your talent.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

My backround is as an architec, and parallel I have been trying and learning every technique at my reach. I have done a lot of photography, etching and lithograph, painting with watercolor, acrylich. charcoal, pastels and oils, experimenting with mixed meria : Photography and painting. Also have made several public and private murals and stained glass windos for churches and hotels

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

Art is what differienciatte humans from animals, artists are visionaries, and is very sad that must artist are “starving artists”, the have to work in many different activities away fro creating, which is what artists should do. Many artists die poor, with no recognition, and only after they die theyfind some,
Society should patronize artists, so they can work and live a decent life without having to deviate their efforts into other activities, society should take care of artists, giving them health insurance and adquiring their work, or at least create opporunities for artists to show and sell their work.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

My work is about the beauty of Nature and importance of simple things; elements of nature that we usually take for granted, and whose beauty we don’t take time to observe, like a fragment of a leaf, a flower, or the way light is reflected as it strikes a drop of dew. These themes are recreated making emphasis in the geometry of nature’s designs. It is the complexity within the simplicity. The work constitutes an alarm to us all to preserve the environment that we are part of and we are relentlessly destroying, and without which we could not survive…..

Contact Info:

• Website: www.juanbernal.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juanbernalart/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juanbernalart