Born in Villafranca de los Barros, Badajoz. She studied Fine Arts in Salamanca and holds a Master’s degree in Art Research from Madrid, the city where she currently lives and works. Her work stems from an interest in how we manage the decorative in our homes and in architecture. Urban material culture serves as a stimulus to create a body of work that traverses memory and the aesthetics of the everyday. In her paintings and ceramics, Paula reformulates the decorative and artistic patterns she finds on the street into more intimate and intrinsic ones that escape the eye. Disregarding the origin of the patterns, she uses them as her own material, with which she plays and changes until the image returns to the organic, involving her own hands as a brush and clay and oil as tools that generate questions. From a particular aesthetic, her work reflects on the fiction of nature in ornamentation and how we assimilate it. She has obtained various scholarships and awards such as: Art<35 Fundació Banc Sabadell 2018; Scholarships in graphic work production AlfaraStudio, Salamanca 2016/2017; XVIII Young Creators Contest, Salamanca, Third Prize Photography, 2018. She has also been selected to participate in different exhibitions: Solo exhibitions: Another Restitution, “Displaced” program at Hybrid Art Fair, Madrid, 2018; Presences of Absences at Lemon y Coco, Cáceres, 2017; Group exhibitions: XXII Young Painters Contest, Fundación La Gaceta, Salamanca, 2018; The Host, Hybrid Festival at Hotel Petit Palace Savoy, Madrid, 2017; Alfara Studio 2016, Palacio de La Salina, Salamanca, 2017; Art’s/Art Sevilla 2016 (UCM Stand); Just Mad 7, COAM, Madrid. She has also been selected for artistic workshops such as: “Painting Workshop by Sangram Majundar”, UCM; “Folding the Earth” with Javier Arce, Program A of the Community of Madrid; “Looking through the eyes of machine” with Paul Laidler, Espacio Ankaria UCM.
