DAMIAN BASANTE ARBUES

original paintings available

MEET THE ARTIST

Hello, I’m Damián Basante Arbues, an Argentine visual artist living in the Spain of my paternal grandmother and based on the Andalusian Costa del Sol.
Surprised by how I could draw, from the age of three my parents always encouraged and supported me to express myself however I wished. Eternal gratitude to them!

‣ the fine artist

My path as a painter is much longer than as a photographer, and finding my own visual identity required many more years and experience.
The usual thing is to focus on a single activity in order to professionalize it. But I’ve spent the past 15 years practicing and developing both photography and painting at the same time.

‣ the photographer

I consider myself a travel photographer because it’s the moment when I pick up my camera and lose myself with it. I’m not only traveling through places physically, but I also drift away with my camera and mentally journey into my own pocket universe.
It’s the same kind of abstraction I feel when I paint in my studio.