ABOUT THE WORK

Expression over perfection, vitality over finish, fluctuation over repose, the unknown over the known, Fernando Zobel has taken traditional ink drawings further than most during his career. He has the Renaissance man’s wide-ranging interests: classical music and contemporary fiction, poetry and myth and much more. Besides being a painter, he is also a superb etcher and draftsman. Compared to many painters, Zobel is not imposing his visual dexterity on preconceived ideas of what painting should be on the viewer. The reality of his art is an elementary simplicity that betrays his complex intellectual training.