About Greg Garcia

A family choice led me to get a B.A. degree and a Master in Business Administration, and to leave art as a secondary activity. My work has given me the chance to travel quite a lot, living in many different places nationwide and abroad, an enriching experience for someone born with an artistic spirit.

After more than 20 year of professional experience in finance, and after going through some management positions, I decided to lift the foot off the gas, and accept a modest job as an accountant, allowing myself to enjoy time (such an important asset when you find out you are actually alive) next to my family and friends, traveling just for the kicks of it, and finding “moments” to return to one of my passions, art.

Art has always been part of my life one way or another, and I consider it a life lasting passion, any dosis of it brings me moments of joy. These last few years I’ve been going from one artistic discipline to another, looking to feel comfortable and recycling years of acquired and mostly self-taught skills. I settled for a while on relief printing, engraving and linocutting are, for me, some great relaxing and quiet means of expression, good to meditate and find focus, leaving “off” the left side of the brain, and at the same time, always a challenge. But, since I'm infinitely open to experiments with other artistic disciplines, I'm now on a cubist and kind of sureal phase, using acrylics and mostly vivid colours, I paint mostly human portraits.

I touch a variety of themes in my artistic work, but mostly I focus on the human and animal figure, to reflect a specific feeling or a simple representation of life through basic yet beautiful details and expressions. I play with lights and shadows, colors and simple images in a not so minimalistic, yet kind of sincerely simple and melancholic tendency I’ve embraced in my aim to slow down and simplify life, less is more, one just has to learn to savor, and learning to do so this simplicity, paradoxically, is actually enriching.