Herme Bellido
Award winning artist , BA hons in Fine Arts by the University of Seville, Herme Bellido, splits her time between Spain and London.
As both a painter and printmaker, her practice is constantly evolving. Always eager to explore new techniques and themes, her work consistently focuses on the formal and conceptual use of colour.
A dedicated studio artist, Herme frequently embarks on plein air research trips, painting directly from nature. These paintings serve as the foundation for new works, which she transforms and refines back in the studio.
When she began taking piano lessons in 2017, Herme Bellido set out to explore the connection between music and colour.
She created a musical code. This search started with a very simplified version for piano of the “Ode to Joy” by Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, and followed with The Largo for the New World Symphony by Antonin Dvořák, which was the result of the experience of its composer in a new world, new country, new culture.
"Throughout these creations , I would like to communicate the creative power derived from diversity and difference, stressing the unifying spirit that the artistic experience can generate in those that take part of it."
When creating screen prints, the process is long and laborious.
Different images, photographic and hand painted ones are transferred to different screens of very fine mesh by a photosensitive process. It is the superposition of these layers of paint, with the same registration, that creates the final Print.
Countless numbers of inks are pulled through sensitive movements of the squeegee creating surprising imprints.
It requieres time, high levels of concentration, and to be made slowly.
For Herme it’s a way of expressing values associated with the human touch, time, and life.
Her work has been exhibited at prestigious venues such as the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, and The Belgravia Gallery, among others. Her pieces are held in both private and public collections worldwide.
“. . . Artistic creation is often born from a tormented inner battle led by the will of our spirit. . . This caramel encompasses a tempestuous battle of emotions and feelings, which by the same exciting mystery transforms a state of agony into poetical and musical beauty…And it is precisely inside where Herme looks to understand and exorcice the light and shadow of human nature, carefully breaking up the emotions that seize us strongly by the heart, showing proudly the silence when necessary, taking off the heavy corsets that suppress us, exploding when the soul is filled with life and thanking it for what it is, being and feeling each molecule that we are in spite of the horror, which threatens at any slip to seduce us.”
Laura Acosta Ignacio.
Curator and Journalist.
