

Ugalde states, “Every time I look around me, I see this beautiful world full of colors and forms and my first impulse is to transform my vision and emotions in a way that connects and reconnects people to Nature. As a result, breathing life and light into his piece. Once the paint is dry, he touches up the colors and features. Ugalde’s art is based on the Jackson Pollock technique of dropping, throwing, and applying industrial oil based paint with a pallet knife on a horizontal position over a wood panel on top of a spinning table. At times, it blows my mind, because the way the light filters into his art… it’s like I’m standing in a photograph of an aspen grove.” A friend once quoted Mary Oliver’s words in describing Ugalde’s capture of the aspen trees, “Roberto has the most gifted way of capturing the trees as they turn their own bodies into pillars of light. Growing up in such a landscape nurtured his appreciation for Nature and inspired his creative talent.Īspen trees and the way the light plays through their leaves and bodies, is his main subject.

Located in the Sierra Madre mountain range, he grew up surrounded by peaked vistas, flowing rivers, and abundant wildlife. Roberto Ugalde was born in Rio Blanco (White River), a small village in the state of Queretaro, Mexico. Upon completion of his studies, he worked for as an art illustrator for a calendar company.
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Roberto Ugalde Excels his use of oil in an impressionistic manner applied mostly with palette knife with brilliant and heavy paint strokes, however, his new direction finds him experimenting with liquid industrial oil paint dropped in an horizontal board and manipulating the color to mixed them and control the shapes of his subjects he navigates from impressionistic landscapes to abstract landscapes. He was classically trained with old masters technique. His love for art guided him to study at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes INBA in Queretaro Mexico. He loved to draw and paint since he was a boy. Roberto Ugalde was born in Queretaro, Mexico. He masters the use of oils in an impressionistic manner which breaths life to his landscapes and figures. Roberto Ugalde is an adept oil painter who expresses the essence of his subjects in a way that draws the viewer into the painting.
