Price On Request Mixed media on canvas 78,7 x 70,8 in (200 x 180 cm)Born in 1961 to a gipsy family in Aragon, north-east of Spain, Lita Cabellut is a prolific contemporary portraitist. Inspired by the ubiquitous fresco paintings in Barcelona where she moved to when she was only an infant, Cabellut spent four years in classical training and held her first exhibition at the Town Hall of Masnou, Barcelona at the age of seventeen. At 19 she left her native Spain to study at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was during these formative years that Cabellut was under the influence of Dutch masters whose techniques would define her own works. Cabellut’s unique pictorial language is inspired by Goya, Velasquez and Rembrandt who served as a bridge between classical tradition and contemporary painting. Born a gypsy, her work is closely intertwined with the memories of the old area of Barcelona where bohemians, street performers and vagrants roamed. Through a contemporary variation on the fresco technique, Cabellut’s has developed her own her own personalized ‘Cabellut-palette’, which was created with the help of laboratories and chemists. Cabellut spent five years researching her special mix of media looking to give her portraits the most realistic skin-like quality. The results of her research are portraits filled with intimacy, striking in their size and scale, creating a deep and powerful visual experience. Her canvasses crackle due to her unique technique in paint application resulting in small bubbles effervesce as if the subject is close to emerging into our world from hers. Cabellut’s passionate canvasses melt in the eye as they propel the viewer into a swirling world of sympathy and emotional turmoil for its subjects. Her passion is latent too. When she feels a fury then the viewer feels it too with...