Guillermo Lorca – The Little Gardeners

In addition to being inspired by Contemporary Art, the Internet, and Old Masters, Guillermo Lorca is heavily inspired by the feelings and emotions we experience in childhood.

When the artist was a child, his book of fairytales with illustrations by Gustave Doré had a profound influence. Stories like Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, and Cinderella expressed the forces of good and evil that exist in life and our natural world. Lorca notes, “when you’re a child, your feelings are more volatile; you’re fighting for power all the time.”

Guillermo Lorca paints children to help us associate ourselves within his painted stories or nightmares that unfold before our eyes. According to the artist, children also represent our inner souls, which he believes should be cared for and protected. As we venture through life surrounded by forces out of our control – some violent or dangerous and others tender and difficult to define – Guillermo Lorca reminds us to embrace our inner child.

When Guillermo Lorca was a child, he had a strange sense of death that could not be defined. “I was in persecutive anxiety all the time. However, one learns to live with that kind of feeling and its complexities, so I expressed myself through art.”