Your favourite moment is right now?
Absolutely. Anytime somebody contacts me because they like my work! Whenever a brand sends me a brief with my name on it and sayst: “I want to work with you” - I feel so good about myself and the effort I’ve put in so far. When it pays off. When it works. That’s my favourite moment every time.
I also love that this year I’ve been able to travel more than ever. I was in London, New York, Sydney, and Madrid. I met my agents this year, and I had my first solo show in Madrid this year!
How was your first solo show?
It was perfect! I have lots of friends living in Barcelona and Madrid. Lots of my friends moved there from Argentina, so I got to meet them all again at the opening of my show, it was so good to see them.
The show itself was so well curated and lots of people came down, it was a lot of fun! Crazy! And perfect.
Do you have a favourite project?
I love working with brands because it makes me try new things. They sometimes suggest certain brand colours, or I have to design for a specific product and it’s a lot of fun.
But my favourite work is when I can be an artist. It becomes my escape. I have sketchbooks everywhere and paper all over, it’s not what I see as work, it’s an escape for me. I have to get out of the screen sometimes.
“I struggled to find my style until I was like 30. So I would just practise constantly, creating my own chaos.”
Do you have any advice for artists just starting out?
A lot of people ask me how I found my style and that advice is hard to give because I don’t think there’s one specific technique. I struggled to find my style until I was like 30. So I would just practise constantly, using other work I liked as inspiration, creating my own chaos.
Chaos can be so useful. Scribble. Make a mess. You can always take a mess and use it digitally in part of your work. Play with process. And also try to be patient. I, myself, am very anxious in terms of my work, I always have to be creating, always have to be thinking and moving. If something is in my mind I have to draw it fast. I get impatient and want to see how it will look.
Keep trying everything. Then pile it together until you define what you like and how you do it.
Do you have a happy place? Or a memory you carry with you everywhere?
When I’m drawing, that’s a place for me, in my head. When I’m really focused and in the zone, I sometimes get flashes to old memories or specific memories that make no sense at all. It just happens when I’m drawing. For me, drawing is that place, that happy place that I escape to.
It happens in the Pixar movie Soul, when the main character plays the piano. His memories come back as he plays and the same thing happens to me when I draw or even when I play sports sometimes.
The football pitch is where we become different people for a while. We can be the best of friends in real life, having a drink after the game, but on the pitch we are allowed to scream at each other, haha! It’s a place where we can switch off for a while.
What’s next for you?
I’m trying to do new things, expand my reach, expand my room, and not repeat myself too much. To keep working on new things and explore things like animation, that’s my next step.
