Borja Buenafente-Gonzalo

Painter, illustrator and designer who lives in Madrid. As a painter he took drawing lessons for a few months at the Art Students League in New York with Nelson Shanks and David Kassan. Mainly self-taught, he began his hyperrealist phase with a series of autobiographical portraits but using friends as models. He always paints with oil on wooden board. Portraits play a fundamental role in his work. He is interested in showing the faces of his emotional environment.