Belén (born 1997 in Hamburg, Germany) is a London-based visual artist, specialising in intricate abstract colour works on paper. She is currently studying a Master’s degree at the Royal College of Art in London, after achieving a Distinction grade in her RCA post-graduate diploma. She had the great honour of being awarded the Lucy Halford Bursary Scholarship for her current Master’s program.
RCA has been named the world’s leading art and design university by the QS World University Rankings and is one of the top art schools in the world. Other Alumni include Henry Moore, David Hockney and Tracey Emin.
Inspired by Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke and Helen Frankenthaler, she has already developed a distinctive abstract style. For Belén, it is a way of expressing philosophical and spiritual themes that stem from her early studies in psychology. She achieves this by experimenting with a combination of voluminous liquid colours that flow mesmerisingly into organic forms. Her non-traditional way of painting creates a dialogue between the freedom of experimentation and precision of control and intention. In this way, her work becomes a dynamic conversation between the tangible and the intangible.
Her work is already in private and public collections, including the private art collection of Lord Davies of Abersoch CBE in London. In 2021 her work was selected to be exhibited at the Institut Français (Hamburg) on the occasion of its 70th anniversary in Germany.