Reina Ursa

A new body of work about kingdoms, queens, roots, and noblesse




Wisdom Etching and soft ground on Okawara paper 2009



Queen Etching and soft ground on Okawara paper 2009



Noblesse Soft ground and relief print on okawara paper, 2009



The harvest Etching and softground on Okawara paper 2009



Reina Osa Etching and soft ground on Okawara paper 2009



Reina Ursa Relief print and soft ground on Okawara paper 2009



Kingdom Etching, relief print and soft ground on Okawara paper 2009

Print exhibition at MX Espai
Teresa Gomez Martorell







First animals and strange fruits

Hours of light/hores de llum

I would like to introduce my new body of work: http://hoursoflighthoresdellum.blogspot.com




From drawing to plate

the year of the bear

Reina Ursa Etching 2009

Regina etching on chine collee, 2009



Ursula drypoint on chine collee, 2009

the year of the doe

The doe series were developed during the 2008.
the most important changes are the use of soft ground techniques to get a pencil quality in the final print and the use of Okawara paper as a surface for this image.
Hybrids are interesting subjects of my art work, since they different qualities are put together, to give human qualities to animals and give animal qualities to humans.


Herd 2007 Soft ground and polyester litho plate



Near the wild heart 2008 installation detail



Gaze 2008 soft ground on Kitakata paper. Courtesy of Flatbed Press



Doe Moss 2008 soft ground. Courtesy of Flatbed Press



Ombre gardienne 2008 soft ground. Courtesy of Flatbed Press



Belle 2008 Dry point, roller and stencil



Biche 2008 etching and roller

the year of the transition

The doe series was created after I moved to Austin. First I still was inspired in the wolfish world. I moved to Sunset Valley, in South Austin. Every morning there was a herd of deer in front of my home and I decided they should become the main characters of my art work. In these series, hooves and paws get together. But deer are coming soon.


Doe 2007 Soft ground on Okawara paper

She does 2007 Soft ground and lithography on Okawara paper

Cierva 2007 Soft ground and spit bite on Okawara paper

Line of blood 2007 soft ground on Okawara paper

The year of the wolf

Wolves were my first animals.





Narcissus 2007 Intaglio relief print. courtesy of Flatbed Press



Tiene la loba cinco lobitos 2007 intaglio relief print. Courtesy of Flatbed Press


Lobos 2006 etching on mulberry paper



Lobos 2006 Etching on mulberry paper




Mother wolf 2006 Relief etching



Mother wolf 2006 Etching printed on a felt



Lobabella 2007 etching, woodcut and embroidery on Kitakata paper



Bridesmaid 2008 Relief print, etching on Okawara paper and embroidery

installation-three dimension

Drawings and prints come out from the paper




Aurora 2008 Installation and wall drawing





Manada 2007 oil pastel and acrylic on a window pane. Mockingbird Station, Dallas



Dogmagnolia 2006 Bronze



Protection 2006 Installation. Wax scuplture, dried flowers dipped in wax, embroidery and ropes

books

Books allow me to combine image and a story. Those books were made with old press blankets. The idea is to create an art work using very poor materials and found objects. Each object speaks by itself, it has a story to tell us.





The book of Snake 2006 Hand bound book on kitakata paper. Etching, wood print and embroidery






The book of Loba hand bound book on kitakata paper. Etching, woodcut and embroidery




Luciernaga 2005 Hand bound book on kitakata paper. Stencil, embroidery, aluminium foil, digital print






Map of human heart 2006 map with a felt folder. Woodcut, etching and embroidery

First

As a sort of statement.
Animals were my beloved beings since the beginning of my life. When I was a teenager I wanted to become a vet. But the Vet School was far away from home and there is no tradition of leaving home in my family. Since I was not allowed to leave home, I decided to leave my mind and I became an artist.
Life took another directions. I tried hard to do what is expected from an artist. At last I became a frustrated vet who loves to draw things: mainly animals and create stories.
Surrealism and poetry are main topics in my art work. I feel that images come to me, as messengers of something unknown but familiar at the same time. Hybrids are a way to give an entity to those unknown, strange beings, to those awkward beings who do not know how to behave in this world and they feel strange and out of place.

I told one of my professors: "Here I feel free" And he answered me ironically: "Yes, you are in the land of freedom". He did not know my story, but at some point, he knows why animals are my beloved beings.