Javier Arizabalo

Between art and images of the past and the future,

... I try to capture a habitable present.

Javier Arizabalo was born in France, although he has always been Spanish. As a child, art was a refuge for him; a way to create a physical and mental world where he felt more comfortable. He soon picked up certain skills that helped him enhance his communication with his surroundings.

At a young age, he started to draw and paint at art schools in his city, soon becoming successful in competitions that he entered. However, it wasn't until secondary school that he decided to study arts further.

He started a degree in Fine Arts in Leioa (Vizcaya) and ultimately graduated in Graphic Art. Within a year, he was working at an advertising agency, but at the age of thirty-nine and due to work-related stress, he decided to get back into the world of art. He realised straight away that he was back in charge of his future, meaning that he could give his very best. Since then, his only limits have been improving himself and improving his work, while sharing it with others. Painting has given him concentration, sustenance, friendships and almost everything that he is now; a way of existing in the world and also of imagining it.

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