Ancient Walls Within
by Guillermo de Llera
by Guillermo de Llera
Painted between 1996 and 1998 this was the first series to focus on cave walls and iconography as a central focus; it is the mother of all work that followed.
Painted between 1997 and 1998, Ancient Walls Within was the first series of paintings by Guillermo de Llera. Motivated by a school teacher who dared him to paint “without thought” and to bring in the work, Guillermo soon discovered the pleasure of abstract automatic painting. It allowed to be free from the drudge of ordinary school life and expectations, and to do 2 of his favourite things at once: to listen to music and to forget himself. Beyond the Haze is about letting go and returning to the source within, not within the mind where noise tends to prevail, but within the heart where emptiness is purity. These are the resulting paintings:
