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About me
Adrián Marmolejo Clarhed (1989)
Adrián starts drawing and painting at 7, as a pupil of the Belgian painter Annette Deletaille, who taught him strong bases on perspective and composition that he tries to apply in every work. She also transmitted to him the importance of painting directly from the environment, capturing the feeling and mood of every moment with strength and spontaneity.
He has been part of the group ‘Young painters of Coín, doing his first solo exhibition at 16 years old in Coín (Malaga), graduating later as an architect in 2016, studying later a masters on ‘Investigation and Production in Art’. His works reflects his interests and background, where intricate and liveable urban landscapes are his specialty.
His work is normally figurative, going through a great variety of techniques: starting with pastels, then oils and acrylics and discovering watercolour later, technique that takes the most out of his personality, since everything is visible and there is no comeback. In watercolour, he gives more importance to tone than colour, since the unity of all elements is vital in a scene. His art could be catalogued as ‘new figuration’, classical structural basis with contemporary touches. He also works with acrylics and oils, or mixed techniques introducing collage, looking for some more expressive richness.
As a painter, he has been awarded with more than four hundred of national and international awards, both in regular studio and plein-air awards. He is part of the Andalusian Watercolour Society. Nowadays, he works fulltime as a painter, combining exhibitions with painting contests and workshops, doing more than 30 exhibitions between individual and group shows.
Among these awards we can highlight the 1st painting award “Ejército del Aire 2021”, (Madrid, Spain) four acquisition prices at Virgen de las Viñas painting award in 2018, 2019 and 2021 and 2022 (Tomelloso, Ciudad Real), the 1st prize at the international watercolor award “Gabriel Puig Roda” (Vinaroz, Castellón) and the “Felipe Orlando watercolor award” in 2024, aswell as the Caudete International biennale Gold medal of watercolor 2024. He has also been awarded the 1st painting award of the “Ibercaja foundation your young talents”, 2024.
He is a member of the Andalusian Watercolor Association and he works with galleries in Granada (Ceferino Navarro), Girona and Figueres with Gallery “El Claustre, in Zamora with “Espacio 36” and in Jaén with “Azur”.
Adrián’s work have been published in such relevant magazines as “The Art of Watercolor” and his work has been selected for the festival “Fabriano in Acquarello”, the annual exhibition of the Royal Watercolor Society in London and for the annual international exhibition of the American Watercolor Society in 2022 and 2023 and the San Diego Watercolor society in 2023 and 2025.
