TIME OUT OF TIME

ROMANIE SÁNCHEZ SMELE

Artist Statement

Painting for me is a necessity to be able to maintain myself balanced between this world and my inner one. When I start a painting, I normally don´t know where it will take me. I start painting from the subconscious, letting shapes and colors find their space. No judgment. While I do this, I usually listen to music that helps my mind get further away from my inner chatter. It is like a kind of meditation. Thoughts come and go, I can see them coming and I try to not follow them and let them leave. Just observe.

​There comes a moment in this process when I stop and look at the painting. I start to ask the painting questions that come to me. This is when I use my notebook and start writing automatically. Questions come to me like, Where do you come from? What are you here to tell me? What does this or that mean? What is the relationship between this or that? Words come to me, questions, sometimes many answers to the same question, etc… This turns naturally into my mind association one thing to the other and linking it all up into some kind of sense. From words to shapes to colors to things that are still not even in the picture and need to be. At this point I get a sense of what the painting gets to look like as an end result. 
I still continue to work on this painting. Defining all the things that I found out in my conversation with the painting. This is when I get into painting patterns and textures, this can take forever, I seem to enter, again, a state of meditation, repeating once and again the same shapes. I find it a way to pull myself out of the process and let it happen. 
A few times I have had the experience of an idea coming to mind to make a painting from it. The painting never gets done. I start it and get so bored while I´m doing it because I feel restrained by the result that I can´t continue. I don´t know how to paint like that.

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Biography

​Romanie Sánchez was born in 1976 in south west England, from an English mother and Spanish father, both artisans. She was brought up on the island of Ibiza amongst an international and bohemian circle of people all living on the Island. She was surrounded by the typical unspoilt countryside of that time, with no television, no money, no religion, although in contact with many different beliefs from many parts of the world. She grew up in a world that is built from a creative experience. One of the most influencial people in her early years was Georges Steinback, an Estonian artist who lived close to her house, he was like a grandfather to her.
She studied at the Ibiza Artes y Oficios School and then in 1998 went to the US to study at the School of Reductionism in northern California. During the year she was there she exhibited her work in San Francisco.
Even though Romanie has always painted, it has been in the last decade that she has made it a real priority in her life. During these years she has exhibited in various places in Spain and Portugal. At the moment she combines her time painting with art classes for children, from whom she receives a great deal of inspiration.
Her art is hanging in private collections in many parts of the world, such as Athens, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Israel, Australia, US, Spain, Portugal, France, England, Sweden...

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