Jose Picornell
IMPRESSIONIST Jose Mari Picornell is obsessed with the scenes he thinks will soon vanish in the areas he sees in the city as he pedals around on his trusty bike. He captures these in oil on canvas. The latest of these paintings are on view in Qube Gallery’s “Vecindad,” the artist’s fourth solo exhibit. Jose Mari had no formal training in painting. He said he used to do watercolor paintings when he was young.
When architect Pio Bonilla saw his works, he told Jose Mari that he was a natural-born painter and taught him how to paint with oils. Since then, he has been painting mostly in oils—though he says he still does watercolor, too, very, very occasionally. He has stuck to oil despite the popularity of acrylic because he finds acrylic too fast drying and is not conducive to his impressionist style of painting where he daubs a layer or layers of paint on top of another.
