New Work

06/08/2024

Philip Minehan writes about Fernando’s monumental latest piece

Philip Minehan writes about the monumental latest piece “High winds of change”, 150 x 300 cm, oil on canvas, 2024: “Fernando’s work has always shown incredible and evocative tensions between forces and forms, internal and external, but also those of the netherworld of the in-between. In this work, I see new forces, new beasts, new […]

01/03/2023

Commission for a private art collection in Devon

Fernando has created this large canvas on the theme of the sea, movement and light for a private collection in Devon.

01/10/2022

Spanish Invasion

Well not quite, just an unassuming Spaniard who was encouraged to visit Ireland for the first time this summer – and Ireland did not disappoint. Born in Seville, Spain 1966, Fernando Velazquez is a contemporary abstract painter renowned for his highly personal vision of the world around him. Fernando’s works feature worlds of the unknown, […]

31/05/2022

Exhibition: TRANSVOID

Fernando’s most recent solo show was a pop up event in Cirencester. It took place over the last few days of May and was organised by the Garage Door Gallery. Transvoid is a new departure in Fernando’s work, driven to paint from a raw desire to find the true essence of human condition. Painting is […]

29/03/2021

Cover artwork for new Philip B. Minehan book

Fernando is proud to collaborate with the American author Philip B. Minehan with the creation of the cover for his latest book “Anti Leftist Politics in Modern World History: Avoiding Socialism at All Costs” published by Bloomsbury. Philip Minehan traces examples of anti-socialist hostility from around the world from the early 19th century. Starting in […]

12/11/2019

Featured Artist at Art on Paper

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Fernando is very pleased to be Art on Paper’s featured artist, for the next couple of months. Fernando has provided a small collection of his studies in ink on paper. These will be on display from Saturday 9th November 2019, at Art on Paper’s Portland gallery and available to purchase in their online shop. These […]

28/12/2018

The Big Picture Vancouver, Canada

This is an ambitious project involving artists from around the world who have created a piece to be part of final painting, expected to be more than six feet in height and 72-feet wide. Once complete, the work may become an artistic version of Google Maps, allowing art appreciators to zoom in on drawings and […]

05/04/2018

New Painting – The Sacred Om Mountain

Om Parvat is the second of a very large format series of 5 that I am working on. Om Parvat, The Sacred Om Mountain … The most fascinating characteristic of this peak is the unbelievable impression of “OM” naturally formed with the deposition of snow against the black background of the mountain. Its appearance is […]

14/04/2013

New Painting for 2013

I have recently completed a large new oil painting (240 x 150cm). It is “Amida” a star maker, a figure that creates dust from chaos, from shapeless matter. The painting is now part of the Solterra Art Collection in Spain.