Martha Escondeur

My name is Martha Escondeur and I am a painter and sculptor. I was born in Uruguay, South America, far to the south, and in a small inland town called Canelones.

From a young age I knew that art was what most interested me. There was no better news that they told me that school was suspended for some reason, to stay to paint, or to draw.

At the age of twelve, I held my first exhibition, and from then on, my life has been dedicated to art and living for and for it.

Since my youth I have always continued to be my passion, and although I studied and dedicated myself to other activities, since no beginning is easy, at a certain point in my life I decided that I would dedicate myself fully to what I loved so much.

I am self-taught, although I have had the opportunity to meet and establish friendship with great Masters of Uruguayan painting, and to train myself by reading and experimenting with new techniques.

I have made exhibitions since 1972, constantly, both in my country and abroad. Thanks to art I have traveled a lot and I have been nourished by those experiences. I exhibited throughout the United States, and in Europe, in Holland, Spain, Belgium, France.

Many of my works are in private collections in Uruguay and in other parts of the world.

I have received awards and mentions throughout a career of more than forty years dedicated to art.

I am dedicated to painting, both oils and acrylics and sculpture in all its possibilities, marble, bronze, ceramics, resins.

At present, I live in Uruguay where I have a beautiful, spacious workshop that allows me to develop all disciplines, listening to music, and enjoying a beautiful garden that surrounds my house.

What inspires my work? Since childhood, the human figure was what attracted the most. I made sculptures and human forms in clay and portrayed everyone around me.

It continues to be my passion, and that is what my work focuses on. I am a portraitist, I do commission portraits and I also make life-size busts and sculptures, which is why my work is known and sought after in my country. I have many busts and sculptures in public spaces.

Despite this, I am always looking for new ideas, and I am extremely interested in the message that a work of art should convey. That makes him dabble in different styles, be it landscape, or abstraction, both in sculpture and painting.

I work by Series, and each one of them contains a narrative and a story that I develop. It often happens to me that an idea suddenly comes to my mind, something that I see in others or the world around me, and I must express it.

As for the portrait, I am interested in how it expresses a feeling or an emotion through the look or body attitude.

The truth is that I work constantly, and every day the first thing I do in the morning is to come to the workshop and the last thing is to look at the work in progress at night.

I believe in inspiration, but mostly in the constancy of work, in that restless and permanent search for the creator.

All my works are original, and I love to work on a large scale. Many of my works are of significant sizes. That does not mean that he also makes small works, and that he considers them beautiful, but the freedom of a large canvas is an incredible feeling.

I like working with oils, their texture, softness, and consistency are ideal for using spatulas, and thus generate textures and volumes, also to be able to achieve glazes.

I like acrylic because it gives the work that something more contemporary, and since I love the Pop style, it is more suitable than oil.

The current pandemic changed the world. Uruguay has beautiful beaches and is a place of tourism. Even before the pandemic, my works sold very well to foreign clients who visited our spas. Uruguay has been very affected by the pandemic and most of the Galleries have closed their doors.  Even in this new situation the world is going through, I keep going, I keep working, and always with the hope of a return to normality in our lives.

Martha Escondeur

Studio address Montreal 416, Barra de Carrasco, Canelones Uruguay

Web site: www.marthaescondeur.com

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Telephone: 5989414749