Long after her university education in Philosophy, Almudena Salamanca studied over 8 years in “Fundación Arauco”, with the painter Guillermo Muñoz Vera.

At an early stage she painted still lifes and landscapes (both nature and urban), but soon figurative painting attracts all her interest, although she worked mainly on request. Nevertheless, she painted figurative urban scenes as “María and Paula”, exhibited in the “Sala América” of Vitoria in 2004.

Since 2005, started working inspired by images and pictures of microstructures revealed in the nature of minerals, gems, butterfly wings, etc. She opted for square formats as a symbol of balance and perfection, and focuses her work on such series as butterfly wings, minerals, gems, and "Colombages"(1).

These paintings are based in figuration, using it to highlight what it is abstract in reality. They make visible what is unnoticed to the naked eye. Looking, has a new meaning: penetrate in what you paint until you understand its essence.

In 2008 Almudena was appointed member of the Royal Academy of Noble and Fine Arts of San Luis of Zaragoza.

In her latest works there is also a place for fantasy.


(1) Colombages: a lattice of panels, often exposed on the outside of the building, common in the normandy architecture, and based on intersecting horizontal and vertical lines, around a closed area: the window. Inside, there is always a question mark where everything fits: pain, love, passion, desire ... A place between two realities, light and darkness, life and death ...