Isabel Miramontes
Isabel Miramontes | Born 1962 | Spanish
Isabel Miramontes came to sculpting late in life and it wasn't until 1994, in a sculptor friend's studio that she made her passionate discovery of sculpture. Isabel Miramontes states: "It is not me who went after the sculpture, that it came to me was obvious. It was instant; I never stopped working the earth". Sculpture then became the preferred mode of expression of Isabel Miramontes, to which she has devoted herself ever since.
Isabel Miramontes was born in 1962 in Santiago de Compostella, Spain but was brought up in Belgium, Brussels. There, Isabel Miramontes did her studies, obtaining a teaching diploma in Fine Arts at the Institute Sainte Marie. Isabel Miramontes continued her training from 1988 at the Fine Arts Academy of Saint-Gilles, In Patrick Pouillart's studio, where she acquired a solid experience of drawing and sketching from live models. Isabel Miramontes also followed the courses of the art historian Gaston Fernandez, who noted her artistic, rigorous yet generous reflection that in enlightened by an expansive open-mindedness.
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Primavera by Isabel Miramontes
The bronze sculptures by Isabel Miramontes express a unique visual style. This special visual language of Isabel Miramontes steadfastly represents the human being in all the ambiguity of its power and frailty, its confinement and yearning for liberty, its dreams and triumphs.
Sculptures by Isabel Miramontes