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Quick Silver. Middlesex University.
Quick Silver. Middlesex University.

           Isabel was born in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. She graduated in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and obtained a Bachelor’s Arts Degree at the Middlesex University of London where she was an Erasmus student. She also became a Doctor in Philosophy and Education at the University of Valencia after researching feminist aesthetics. She wrote a thesis about the sculptor Louise Bourgeois within the field of art therapy and feminism.

           Right after, thanks to a scholarship from the Japanese government, she attended a master's course at the Okinawa Kenritsu Geijutsu Daigaku where she studied the techniques of Japanese painting. Later on, while being a Canon Foundation Fellow, she did research about Japanese literature and art at the Tama Art University of Tokyo. After this, she was awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language by the Institute of International Education in London.

           Her teaching experience is related to technical drawing, artistic drawing, arts and crafts and painting at several schools and Adult Education centres in Valencia. She has also been a teacher of Japanese language at the University of Valencia and other public and private centres.

Okinawa, Japón, 2002.
Okinawa, Japón, 2002.

           Concerning her artwork she has studied art and artistic tendencies deeply, exhibiting in Spain, United States, England and Japan. Influenced by artistic movements like impressionism, abstract expressionism and realism, her work continues to develop towards personal expression, exploring feelings through art. Something to be appreciated among her series of flowers, landscapes, portraits and other works that share both abstraction and figurative art influences.

           She is also interested in illustration, as an art form, and her professional experience includes design consulting, logo design, book covers, posters or icons among other commissions. 

           At present, she is collaborating with a digital newspaper writing articles about the teaching of drawing. And recently she has published a storybook for children titled "Yoyo and Filipa".