Enrique Hernandez

Enrique is a figurative drawer, creative researcher and expressive artist based in Cambridge, UK. Viewing art as a pure human necessity, he explores how the role of the model and the atmosphere of a design process completely determines the artistic situation and the feeling it evokes and captures.

He works primarily in charcoal and pastels on paper, as this elicits the sentiment that is being portrayed through its raw sensory texture.

Enrique works with different artists and models to share and develop a deeper understanding of art as a reclamation of one's identity. As part of his artistic journey, he has participated in different life drawing sessions in Cambridge and London. 

Enrique has also spent several months abroad as part of his self-discovery and exploration journey, working and researching in Australia, New Zealand, Italy and Spain, including: 

• Figurative drawing approaches at the Queensland College of Art (Griffith University, Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia).

• Reinventing figure drawing through Life Drawing Sessions (Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia). Connecting with artists of different fields, experimental work on visual arts from the prism of musical expression.

• Exploration of the role of the model as part of the artistic expression (Gold Coast, Australia). The model as an expressionist master in creating the real sentiment where art blossoms. 

• The essence of art as an empowerment source for women and helping with mental health disorders is a broad topic which is now being taken as a research, long-term project to bring the artistic concepts into an experimental field with a bigger purpose. (Gold Coast, Australia). 

• Research insights at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

• Deeper work and analysis of aboriginal art and history at different venues (Northern Territory and North Queensland, Australia).

Sharing with other artists and models, Enrique has taken different steps in the deeper process of understanding the openness of art as a feeling of expression, as opposed to a more generalist approach based on the purity of materials and technique. 

 

 

Some of Enrique's work has been displayed in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, as part of the "Defaced!" and "Love Art After Dark" exhibitions.