Cristina welcomes me at her studio, which is also her art school. An apartment in the Gracia district, full of hidden and charming spaces. We talk about Barcelona, about artists and galleries, and about her work. I observe the elegance of her movements and the attractive mix of irony and self-assurance she has when she talks. She tells me that she likes to paint watercolors more than oil paintings and shows me some magnificent portraits in small format. I admire her oil paintings, which are also very good, often resolved with unexpected resources. She tells me how, for her latest project, she gets her inspiration from listening to crime podcasts in order to imagine and recreate the scenarios: mysterious houses lost in the middle of nowhere.
Cristina Blanch studied art at the ESAG Penninghen in Paris. Creator and director of the Blanch Art School, founded in 1990 in Barcelona, she has developed in parallel her activity as a painter with exhibitions in Barcelona, Madrid, Italy, Hong Kong and Singapore.
