Still life
SKETCH OF A DOVE
Poster for the Spring Festival. Acrylic and pencil on heavy paper. On thick handmade paper, the artist made one of the preliminary sketches for the official poster of the 2009 Seville Spring Festival. The same dove appears in the lower left of the official published version of the poster. The drawing is mounted on Bordeaux-coloured board with a silver moulding in silver leaf.
STILL LIFE WITH GOLDEN VASE
Acrylic on canvas The red line of this still life is drawn in a single stroke; the vivid colours make it a decorative canvas.
LITTLE WOODEN HORSE
Acrylic on canvas The invisible skeleton of this little horse, of opulent proportions, in an aesthetic and sophisticated movement. To achieve great fluidity in the drawing, the artist made the sketch in a single stroke.
2020 - CUBIC LOBSTER sketch for CATS AND LOBSTERS
Acrylic on canvas A play of cubic forms and colours that the painter created while preparing her work “CATS AND LOBSTERS”.
IN A YELLOW VASE
Acrylic on canvas With a light, confident dark-blue line, the painter sketches a generous, semi-abstract still life. The yellow vase seems unable to cope with such abundance. A solid-wood box moulding in silver frames the canvas without covering it.
WAITING
Acrylic on canvas In vertical format, toys from different generations. On the left, in deep shadow, the puppet of a white-haired clown looking away, and a second clown with a melancholy expression and an awkward pose. Both dolls belong to the childhood memories of the artist, who was inspired to paint this work at a time that coincides with her daughter's childhood. The centre of the canvas is empty, a blank division between times past and the present, the latter represented by two of the artist's daughter's toys, a LOL doll and a Rubik's cube. A fragile glass full of coloured pencils seems lost somewhere between the times.
SUMMER FLOWERS
FLOWERS AND FRUIT
LOL DOLLS
Acrylic on canvas A challenge of maximum contrast in black and white, on a square canvas divided into 16 squares, a play of shadows and polka dots. On this chessboard the artist places her daughter's colourful, modern doll collection.
WOOD AND TIDE LANDSCAPE IV
Acrylic on canvas This work was inspired by a photograph the artist took at one of the ponds of the Sanlúcar salt flats. The challenge the artist set herself was to capture a subject she had never worked on before, with a very limited colour palette and a perspective that demands a high degree of abstraction. With the mastery she has achieved, the painter creates a work that is completely atypical and yet completely true to her style.
VERSATILE DOLLS
Acrylic on canvas Five dolls belonging to the artist's daughter, on a background of black and white squares in a folded alignment. Clearly, the painter wants to encourage us to forget the rules of a conventional approach. Not only the very fact of a multiple, extravagant portrait of toys, but also the possibility of reading this work as both a vertical and a horizontal painting at the same time, is a clear manifesto of Uta's intention to abandon the rules of how one should paint and how one should look at a work.
SILVER TEDDY BEAR
Acrylic on canvas A work of soft Cubist lines and pastel colours. A silver toy teddy bear in dialogue with partly abstract symbols: flowers, eyes, glasses, lips, stars. The canvas has deep edges and the motif continues around all four of them. The artist's signature is on the left-hand side.
FLEETING PRESENT sketch for WAITING
Acrylic on canvas A work in pastel tones: two toys from different times. A draft that captures Uta's intention to create a canvas uniting her own childhood with her little girl's. In the foreground a LOL doll; in the background, the past, represented by a blonde Playmobil woman, seated and attentive, with a dog. The perspective emphasises the distance between the two figures, which nevertheless seem connected, both looking in the same direction, which is by no means where the viewer stands.
BOUQUET OF WILD FLOWERS
Acrylic on canvas One of the first still lifes the artist painted with a single red line after settling in Spain. Great nonchalance and lightness characterise this early sketch.