JOHN ESCORS

This presentation is a lyrical-poetic statement of what the landscape communicates.
The landscape is the gaze that contemplates it, land, countryside, sea passing through that prism that provokes the desire to portray it. That is landscape: nature seen through the prism of art.
I paint visceral landscapes that flow from an intimate and schematic vision of reality, where my pictorial proposal is an intuitive exercise of translating what the landscape wants to reveal to us.
In a contemporary style with strong abstract overtones and where colour fills the spaces portraying serenity and fragility alongside ferocity and turbulence.

"Juan captures in his works the sensory impression, symbolism and abstract expressionism. An intuitive and self-taught creator, his painting contains a pictorial avant-garde of enormous quality, with serene, fragile and subtle landscapes. In his creations, Juan Escors does not displace any genre. He paints exotic worlds, blurred so that nobody confuses them with the academicism of official paintings, because what they really represent are his impulses as a consummate artist.

Juan's coloured reality merges into a unique visual impression that shares the same light and movement of life, becoming a metaphor for the pictorial world of dreams.

In the work of Juan Escors various currents of painting converge, but above all an impressionist touch prevails that is capable of engulfing everything that surrounds it, the gaze of the beholder, and even the colours of the rainbow, the lost illusion, the necessary light and the warmth of colour.

After looking at his paintings, a phrase that the American painter Edward Hopper said about himself comes to mind: ".I may not be so human". Juan is. But with the unmistakable sign of a great artist".

Jesús Maeso de la Torre, writer.

Juan Escors, based in Jerez (Cadiz), was born in 1973.

An intuitive and self-taught painter, he came into contact with this discipline from a very early age, where at the age of 11 he was awarded a prize for a pictorial work that was published in the cultural magazine of the Diputación de Cadiz. He studied Business Science and Law at university, and currently works as a lawyer in the Escors-Urbina Law Firm in El Puerto de Santa Maria, where he alternates painting part-time. 

He has participated in group and solo exhibitions in museums, galleries and fairs both nationally and internationally. His work in the modality of abstract expressionism possesses a great power of communication revealing an expansive and enthusiastic personality. His technique is interesting for the harmonic handling of colour and its mixtures that culminate in diaphanous paintings that explode in the calm and warmth of his work.

ART STATEMENT

I paint visceral landscapes that flow from an intimate and schematic vision of reality, where my pictorial proposal is an intuitive exercise of translating what the landscape wants to reveal to us. In a contemporary style with strong earth tones and where colour fills the spaces portraying serenity and fragility together with ferocity and turbulence.

Awards and Recognition 2022

Honourable Mention in the National Painting Prize Omorfia, city of Cadiz, December 2024. 

Finalist in the IX Salón de Arte Abstracto AEPE, Madrid, June 2024.

Finalist in the VIII Salón de Arte Abstracto AEPE, Madrid, April 2023.

YOT Art Prize Winter 2022 organised by Artevistas Gallery and Kaleido, Barcelona December 2022.

https://www.kaleido.art/prizes/Yot-Winter2022

Publications and Press Kit

Press article in the newspaper of Cadiz, referring to the participation with Omorfia gallery in the contemporary art fair of Madrid 2023. 

https://www.diariodecadiz.es/ocio/arte-gaditano-va-feria-Madrid_0_1767424137.html

Interview in the TV programme "Traspunte" of Onda Cadiz about the Christmas Market of the Architects Association of Cadiz.

https://youtu.be/5_61Lc_0XBQ

Press article in the newspapers VIVA Puerto and Vejer, referring to the solo exhibition "Paisajes Mínimos" and "Sinestesia" respectively.

Exhibitions

Collective Exhibition II Premio Nacional de Pintura Ciudad de Cadiz, in the gallery Omorfia. February 2025.

Collective exhibition of the Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors in the Halls "Juana Francés" and "Pablo Serrano" of Madrid. June 2024. 

Solo Exhibition "Sinestesia" gallery La Veracruz de Vejer. February 2024 

Group Exhibition Diverso at the gallery Omorfia in Cadiz. May 2023.

Group exhibition at the Andalusian Fair of Art and Culture of Seville at the Palacio de Congresos de Sevilla (FIBES). April 2023. 

Collective exhibition of the Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors in the Sala Eduardo Urculo in Madrid. April 2023. 

Group exhibition at the Feria de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid in Paseo la Castellana with the gallery Omorfia in Artis 360, February 2023. 

Group exhibition at the Art Market of the Colegio de Arquitecto de Cadiz, December 2022. 

International group exhibition Mundoarti virtual museum "Summertime", July 2022.  

Solo exhibition "Paisajes Mínimos" Blanco y Negro gallery in El Puerto de Santa Maria, June 2022. 

International group exhibition Mundoarti virtual museum "Primavera", April 2022.  

Collective exhibition of the Colegio de Abogados de Cadiz in the Sala Alfonso X el Sabio in El puerto de Santa Maria. October 2021.