Elena Gual (Mallorca, 1994) stands out for her technique and handling of light. At just 16 years old, she moved to England to further her painting studies, won second prize at the “Painters Stainer’s Competition” in London, and at that moment decided to move to Florence to begin her career in drawing and classical painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, a decision that marks her technique.

After graduating, Gual exhibited in Paris in an individual exhibition commissioned by Wendy Lauwers, at Chatêau des Terrases. Shortly after, she exhibited in Venice, parallel to the Venice Biennale at the Palazzo Mora. Later, she was part of the “Cap Ferrat” collective in France.

In 2020, she does an artist residency and her first exhibition in London with the Grove Square Gallery. In 2021, Arena Martínez Projects offers to take her to the Estampa 2021 Art Fair, her first fair and exhibition in Spain. At the end of 2021, Gual also begins to work with Gallery Red in Palma de Mallorca.

Elena Gual has a very marked and recognizable technique, but she continues to investigate new forms and lines of work, always very inspired by her own work and the canvas she plays with when painting.

The theme of women and promoting equality through her work is something that stands out in her work, as well as emotions, hence her new, more abstract line, which is what she is exploring lately along with a study of the human figure to promote equality between different bodies of women. Her process is undoubtedly very marked by her technical studies, since she always begins with a sketch, a study of the composition of the work and a study of the light.

Elena Gual has a technique inspired by the image of interracial women despite continuing to open new lines of work and even venturing into abstraction. Her work is characterized by the use of the palette knife and her knowledge of the techniques of Renaissance painters and classical sculpture. All this thanks to the three years of training at the Florence Academy of Art. Later she moved back to London, where she lived from the age of 16 to continue her training at the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins. She has exhibited in Paris, Venice and London. Back in Spain, Arena Martínez Projects presents its work for the first time in her country at the Estampa 2021 fair, on the occasion of the Art Madrid fair, her work can be seen for the second time in Spain.