Biography
Carme Sala’s training as an artist is clearly influenced by two of her teachers: illustrator, Joan G. Junceda and painter, Rafael Benet. The former introduced her to the world of drawing and illustration, which eventually took her to work as an illustrator for the most famous magazines of the time. The latter conveyed to her the attraction for impressionist paintings, the concern for color in order to grasp the light at the different moments during the day and the taste for spontaneity and everyday life. She had her first exhibition at the age of sixteen in Barcelona and has never thought to leave the world of painting since then. Carmen Sala has a great plastic personality, which she expresses by means of spontaneous brush strokes and light-rich painting. She is an artist that reflects reality directly, in the impressionist fashion, showing it on her canvas by means of painting and merging it in a luminous ensemble. Carmen Sala will spend all her life chasing that last afternoon light, a sunray filtering through leaves and exploding in a pool of water, or rationalizing an anarchical composition of bodies and umbrellas on a constantly moving beach. All of that always a plein air, where light engulfs all and becomes art, beyond the anecdotic.
