Noemi Ibarz is a Spanish artist who specializes in gouache and acrylic paintings. Mixing gouache and acrylic paint together provides you with a paint that dries quickly, applies smoothly, easily layers, and combines all of the best benefits from each painting. Instead of the matte finish that gouache gives, the end product appears glossier, brighter, and more vibrant than before, which can easily add dimension to your painting.
Noemi’s artistic journey did not initially start with painting. She studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Barcelona, specializing in engraving, and worked for fifteen years in textile design and serigraphy which led her to own a children’s clothing company. Her paintings are certainly influenced by her somewhat non-traditional background and experience.
Noemi is an artist who doesn’t plan on what to paint. All her work is painted without the use of previous studies or sketches. She lets her hand be unrestrained, to trace the lines it wants. The whole process happens fairly unconsciously. It truly is a form of meditation for her as an artist. It allows her to create work intuitively letting the work figure itself out. My art ends up taking unexpected turns from all the experimentation.
Her biggest inspiration, nature, made her move moved from the big city of Barcelona to a little town on the Mediterranean Sea. Here she is surrounded by the sea and the mountains and woods of El Montseny. Nature not only inspires Noemi’s art but also provides her respite from the many complexities of life and her thoughts. Now, Noemi lives in Canet de Mar, a small town on the coast of Catalonia with her husband, her daughter, five cats, and a crazy dog, painting every day as a therapy for her soul.