Interview with: Decolorferoz

August 2025

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Welcome Decolorferoz, first tell us about your background and why you chose to pursue this career.

My academic background is as a teacher. Subsequent non-academic training allowed me to work as a computer technician, engineer and manager, in different companies and for most of my life.
I am a self-taught artist, which gives my work the spontaneity of innocence, but also the unconsciousness of ignorance.
 

 

Do you remember the first artwork that stirred something inside you?
The professional painting of a white horse that hung on the wall of one of my
primary school teachers' houses.
 

 

What was your first step in becoming an artist?
Work ethic disagreements and personal vicissitudes led me to consider a change of career that would allow me time to resolve them.
 

 

How do you define yourself in the creative industry?
Non-existent…Hello world!
 

 

What is indispensable while working in your studio?
To be alone.
 

 

Who are your favourite artists, and who are the ones that built your creative imaginary?
Fidias, Gothic cathedrals, Bernini, Velazquez, Vermeer, VanGogh, Sorolla, Dalí and Calatrava, but only specific pieces. 19th century is my favourite period in terms of art.
 

 

What is your relationship with social media, and how do you use them?
I try to increase the visibility of my work by using Instagram.
 

 

How would you describe your artistic practice? What are the recurring elements, themes, and concepts you refer to?

a) Science: Most of my work is concerned with - but not limited to - showing the value of science as a source of knowledge and conflict resolution, making visible through it the contradictions, paradoxes and misunderstandings that could be avoided by a better understanding of it, the limits of the senses that we usually ignore and the value we give to instincts whose emotions we seek with much less rationality than we affirm; in short, the damage that opinions can cause. This does not prevent me from dealing with current, emotional, strictly intuitive and humorous topics.

b) Ethics: Where science ends, I use simple ethics: avoiding the suffering of others is the natural delimiter of coexistence. And the impossibility of achieving it, far from being an excuse, is a reason for perseverance.

c) Emotions, sensations and humour.
 

 

Your practice is developed around different mediums, a multidisciplinary approach. Tell us about your practice.
I'm poor, so I only use acrylic — and not much of it — to keep costs down. Having been born in a small town and having worked in various trades, I am familiar with using multiple materials, which I still can't afford.
 

 

Your practice also embraces painting. Over the decades, there has been talk multiple times about the supposed death of painting, which, in fact there never was. How do you see the future and development of this medium?
With artificial intelligence on the horizon, it's difficult to predict what will happen. I don't know if there has ever been a good time for artists, but what I can say is that there has never been so much supply for such demand. Nevertheless, I believe that there has never been a time with as many talented artists as there are today.
 

 

Is there a particular reason why you decided to use painting as a medium of expression?
How inexpensive it is. I don't exhibit my photography because it's so costly to
print high-quality work.
 

 

What inspires you? Where do the ideas come from? How do you develop your projects?

I am inspired by everything, literally, from the lizard that suddenly appears between the rocks to the calculated movement of an actress in a movie. I simply write down the ideas as they come to me, then I combine several of them, and finally I make the sketch, which I may change dozens of times until it seems acceptable to me.
This happens twice for each painting, once for the aesthetic part and once for the idea it is trying to convey.
 

 

What projects do you plan to work on this year?
Get my artist portfolio and catalogue professionally reviewed. Paint at least two more paintings. Exhibit in China.
 

 

Can you define the word "art" according to your personal view?
In art everyone has an opinion and, by definition, opinions are always subjective (including mine). I can say that I don't like most contemporary art, and that when in doubt, I prefer technique to originality. However, I don't like vegetables either, yet they are what I eat most often.

 

Clearly, you have a distinct and identifiable personal style; how did you develop it? Was there a specific person or movement that inspired you?
I try to make each painting as different as possible from the previous one, yet they all look alike due to my limitations rather than my talent. I am repelled by the current taste for distortions of reality unless the artist has previously demonstrated their skill. Although I often spend time creating an unseen style, I am ashamed to say that I end up copying the works of artists I like.
 

 

What projects will you be developing during this year? What about the next one?
I want to obtain sufficient publicity through both online and traditional platforms (competitions, magazines, etc.) so that people become aware of my work. The next one is an art fair in China, but I can't say any more at the moment.
 

 

Why do you make art?
At the age of seven, I was the one in charge of drawing on the blackboard in class, at fourteen I refused the patronage of a painter I met by chance, and at twenty I already had a painting hanging on the wall of the Faculty of Education in Segovia. All this convinced me that if I ever needed it, I could make use of this ability.
When the need arose, it became the only option, despite the risk. I also dislike hurting others, and this is one of the few things that enables me to do so.
 

 

What meaning do you give to your works?
Mindscapes. Pure joy with a harsh background.
 

 

When did this passion of yours become your work?
Never, I'm still surviving on my savings. But I started at 56.

What are your references in the art world?
The internet and AI

What do you say to the classic comment: "I could do it too"?
It highlights that there is something amiss with the criteria used by artists,
curators and buyers.
 

Artist who has most influenced you in the past or stylistically?
Vermeer
 

Favorite contemporary artist and why?
Marco Bettaglini; he may not be the most imaginative but is technically glorious.
 

Is creativity innate, or do you have to work at it until the ideas come out?
In my case, creativity is innate, what I don't know is whether it is good enough.

 

What do you want your art to convey to the people who see it? 
Kindness.
 

 

What is the meaning or creative motivation behind your work?
Joy behind the formal idea, Injustice behind the story.
 

 

What is your typical workday routine? 
It all began after I drank a bowl of cocoa milk in the living room of my small house, which looks more like a messy warehouse.
 

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Tell us a bit about the process of making your work?
When an idea comes to me, I don't let it slip away; I write it down as soon as it appears. I have collected hundreds of them.
When I start painting, I combine two or three of these ideas for the technical part and then make a sketch on the computer. Then I forget the sketch and paint a different artwork. After several months, I review and change or add more ideas to the sketch and write the story I will assign to it. Then I paint it by hand on the canvas.
 

 

What are some references you draw upon in your work? Are there any themes in particular that you like to focus on when creating?
Light, colour and shapes in motion, like water. I don't like the human figure, not even in paintings!
 

 

Where are some of your favorite spaces that support contemporary art or design?

Now that the art has an online presence, has that changed?
I am completely uneducated on the subject but, In addition to Instagram, I consult Wikiart to learn, and collections from platforms such as Saatchiart, Artavita, Devianart, Artsy, Singulart...and my favourite: Pinterest.
 

 

Who are some of your favorite artists? Or who has been inspirational recently?
Ren Qian (ken kurojiro), Michelle Fletcher, Jadé Fadojutimi, Blu Smith, Nancy Wood, Pascal Em, Dirk Fleischmann, Eric Le Pape, Alvaro Peña…and many more.

 

 

What are you working on at the moment?
It was called ‘The Pillars of the Universe,’ but with the atrocities currently taking place in Gaza, it will be called ‘Infinitely Beautiful, Horribly Atrocious’ (or something similar). Almost the same image with a different story.
 

 

Is there anything else you would like to share?
Joys in the plantations of hopes, dreams that shelter against hatreds, and a smile to the warriors of the impossible.

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We are at the end of this short interview, how did you find the collaboration with our gallery?
I am happy to say without blushing that you do all the work, so the experience has been fantastic.

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