I am from Seville, Spain. I am a Disabled and Self-taught Artist. Cartoonist of Comics as well as Contemporary Art Painter in the Neo-expressionist style, although on occasions I also paint works in the Realist style.

My style of Contemporary Art Painting is Neoexpressionism, with which I identify myself. What I do most is to draw portraits and faces of characters invented by me in this style with waxes on paper, which is the technique with which I express myself best. With my painting I intend to go deep into expressionist art and find everything that interests me in man and search in the soul of every human being who pretends as a spectator to reflect and find himself in each drawing, in each painting. In short, to find himself. I have made exhibitions of my works, and I have won some Drawing and Painting Awards from City Councils and Associations for the Disabled.

My favorite artists are Pablo Picasso, Jean Michel Basquiat, Francis Bacon, Antonio Saura, Karel Appel, Alfonso Fraile and Juan Barjola.

If you like my work, you can visit my website: https://amadeo300.wixsite.com/josanartista

AWARDS:

2022 Painting Prize in the 3rd Artistic Expression Contest "Art to heal the soul". Mental Health Andalusia. Seville.

2020 2nd Prize for Drawing in the Xii Art Contest "Soy Capazitado 2019". Santander City Council. Spain

2019 1º Accesit In The Ix Ivass National Painting Contest. Valencia, Spain

2018 2nd Drawing Prize in the Xi Art Contest "Soy Capazitado 2018". Santander City Council. Spain

2017 Honorable Mention in the VIII Ivass National Painting Contest. Valencia, Spain

2017 2nd Prize of Painting in the Vi Plastic Arts Award. Anade Foundation. Collado Villalba. Madrid, Spain

2016 Acquisition of work in the I Contest of Artistic Expression and Mental Health: Reality and Representation 2016. Seville, Spain

2015 Painting Prize in the National Painting Contest "Puro Arte". Prosame. Burgos, Spain

2008 3rd Prize for Painting in the 51st National Painting Salon City of Ayamonte. Novel Category. Ayamonte City Hall. Huelva, Spain

2007 1st Prize for Illustration in the "I Contest of Illustrations Related to Bipolar Disorder". Astrazeneca Foundation. Madrid, Spain

2002 Prize-Acquisition of work in the V Contest "Al Margen - 2002". Huelva, Spain

1999 Prize-Acquisition of work in the Iv Contest "Al Margen - 99". Malaga, Spain

1998 1st Drawing Prize in the Iii Contest "Al Margen - 98". Seville, Spain

1993 3rd Prize for Painting in the I Painting and Sculpture Contest "Al Margen-93". Seville, Spain

1985 2nd Prize for Drawing and Honorable Mention in the 1st Youth Contest of Plastic Arts of Andalusia. Junta de Andalucia (Andalusian Government). Malaga, Spain

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:

2022 Andalusia Mental Health Federation, Seville, Spain

2017 Santander City Council, Spain

2017 Anade Foundation. Collado Villalba. Madrid, Spain

2016 Faisem Association. Seville, Spain

2015 Prosame Feafes Association. Burgos, Spain

2008 Ayamonte City Council. Huelva, Spain

2007 Astrazeneca Foundation. Madrid, Spain

2007 Valencian Association of Bipolar Disorder. Valencia, Spain

1993 Línea Paralela Association of Plastic Artists. Seville, Spain

1985 Junta de Andalucia (Andalusian Government). Malaga, Spain